One video showed a woman's hand with painted nails, gently pushing at the carriage window, a stirring sign of incredulity at the surging water level outside - a moment of dread before the inevitable breach of the carriage doors. Others showed water flowing freely down train track as bemused passengers stood on the platform, before beginning to evacuate. Parents could be seen holding their children up above the floodwaters as it leaked in around the carriage doors, rising above seat level and halfway up their chests.
Survivors recalled fear gripping them as the waters rose, but said the most terrifying thing was when air inside the trains started to run out. Train tracks turned to rivers in Zhengzhou as commuters on the city's 'Line 5' were trapped in flooding carriages than plunged into darkness as the power went out.
Twelve of the deaths reported so far occurred in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province, after the city's underground network flooded with horrifying videos showing people trapped in train carriages filling with water while awaiting rescue.Īnother four were reported dead in the nearby town of Gongyi, while five were injured and another 200,000 displaced in what is believed to be the heaviest rainfall in the region for 1,000 years.ĭisaster struck between 4pm and 5pm Tuesday as an incredible 22 inches of rain - seven months' worth - fell on already-saturated ground, triggering flash floods and causing rivers and reservoirs to burst their banks.
At least 18 people have died after torrential rains inundated towns an cities in central China - trapping people in a flooded subway system in water up to their necks
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