Residents uprooted from the waves, from flooded streets, a subway flooded by water… The Chinese city of Zhengzhou was hit by torrential rains which resulted in deadly torrents of mud.
At least 16 people perished trapped in metro cars as residents with knee-deep water pushed their vehicles through flooded arteries.
The army was called in to reinforce the capital of the densely populated Henan province, which received almost the equivalent of a year of rain in three days.
As of Wednesday morning, no less than 200,000 inhabitants had to be evacuated, announced the town hall, specifying that 36,000 people were "affected" by the floods.
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Also in Henan, dozens of water reservoirs have reached worrying levels and a dam threatens to rupture, raising fears of other disasters.
Soldiers deployed along other waterways in the region to reinforce the banks with sandbags.
