People are drowning in the subway and the streets.. Horrific videos of the tragedy of China

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Shocking videos and pictures broadcast by satellite channels, news agencies and official media showed the scale of the disaster and human tragedy as a result of the floods that swept through Henan Province in central China, killing 25 people, including 12 who drowned in a subway line in the provincial capital, which is witnessing the heaviest rainfall in a thousand years.

Passengers were trapped on a metro line in Zhengzhou, China after downpours hit the city.

Rescue efforts have been underway.

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"Reuters" said that the passengers of the subway trains stood in the dark with the flood waters reaching their chest level, while an underground station turned into a large pond, and city authorities said that 500 people were rescued from the station.

One survivor wrote on social media: "The water reached my chest, I was afraid, but the most terrifying thing was not the water, but the lack of air inside the car."

Heartwarming: A woman caught in rapid water was saved by passers-by in China's Zhengzhou amid torrential rains.

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A Zhengzhou resident said that because of the rain, the authorities stopped bus services where cars run on electricity, which is why so many people took the subway and the tragedy happened.

Authorities evacuated about 100,000 people in the capital, Zhengzhou, where railway and road services were disrupted, while waters in dams and reservoirs reached warning levels and thousands of soldiers began a rescue operation in the province.

And Chinese media quoted meteorologists as saying that the amount of rain that fell in the city of Zhengzhou over the past three days occurs "once every thousand years." The United States and Canada in the recent period and the floods that occurred in Western Europe.

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