Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Floods that hit Henan province, China, causing sad news for the country. At least 12 people were killed and five others injured when water hit a subway line in Zhengzhou, Tuesday (20/7/2021) night.
Residents were trapped in carriages when floodwaters hit ‘line 5’ where they were. In a video circulating on social media, trapped residents can be seen touching the windows of a train carriage as brown water presses on the tunnel from outside and leaves them in despair.
In the post Weibo, on Chinese social media, you can see how chest-deep water fills a carriage that is crowded with people. At that time, the lights on the line went out completely in the middle of what is usually busy commuter hours.
Panic is also seen in the video. Some residents were confused and frightened while others carried children who were traveling with them.
“Water leaking from the cracks in the door. More and more. We all can, stand on the subway seats,” a woman on Weibo, who was known to be on her way home at around 5pm, was quoted as saying AFP, Wednesday (21/7/2021).
“In the next half hour, the water level got higher and higher in the train, from the ankles, knees, to the neck. The power went out. Half an hour later, it was hard to breathe,” another said.
The horror was replaced by hope when rescuers came and broke the glass. The passengers were finally pulled from the train window.
“My clothes, my backpack, everything I could throw away. I threw away. The people around me gripped the fence as about a dozen of us climbed (out of the tunnel),” a survivor named Zhang told local media. CCTV.
In the latest news, Thursday (22/7/2021), Reuters put the total death toll due to flooding in Zhengzhou now to 25 people. As many as 200,000 people have also been evacuated to safety.
Floods paralyzed the city of 10 million inhabitants. In addition to the submerged subway lines, the main roads are said to have turned into rushing rivers with flooded cars.
Energy is also completely paralyzed in the region due to rain that has come since Tuesday afternoon. Electricity for residents is now mostly out.
It has been raining since July 17 and continued to come through Tuesday afternoon. Floods are expected to occur for the next two days.
Media Xinhua reported China’s Ministry of Emergency Management, has raised the emergency response status from level IV to level III. China has a flood emergency response system, with Level 1 being the top,
The army has also jumped in to divert the flood. The PLA stepped in to strengthen the embankment as the Yihetan dam burst in Luoyang, about 137 kilometers from Zhengzhou.
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