The moment a woman and her two children were saved from certain death.. video

Chinese media circulated a video of the moment a woman and her two children were rescued from certain death inside a deep mud pit formed by heavy rains and floods that swept through Henan Province in central China, killing 25 people, including 12 who drowned in a subway line.

The "Xinhua News" account on the social networking site "Twitter" posted the video, commenting on it, saying: "A mother and her two children were trapped in a deep mud pit in Zhengzhou, China, amid heavy rain. Watch how they were helped."

A close call!

A mother and her two children were trapped in a deep mud hole in Zhengzhou, China, amid heavy rains.

Watch how they were helped out.

#GLOBALink pic.twitter.com/94QdIJFytV

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) July 21, 2021

The video showed a person heading to the woman, whose small part of her body was visible on top of the mud, then a person went to her and managed to save her and her two children, who were completely buried in the mud.

Chinese authorities evacuated about 100,000 people in the provincial capital, Zhengzhou, as 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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