Heaviest rainfall in 1,000 years KILLS at least 25 as deluge RAVAGES China’s Henan province - LATEST: ▪️25 confirmed dead with 7 people missing – in worst rainfall in a millennium ▪️Provin
Heaviest rainfall in 1,000 years KILLS at least 25 as deluge RAVAGES China’s Henan province - LATEST:
▪️25 confirmed dead with 7 people missing – in worst rainfall in a millennium
▪️Provincial capital Zhengzhou is among a DOZEN cities flooded in the region – with streets turned into rivers
▪️More than 500 people were pulled to safety in subway floods
▪️Cities located on the banks of the Yellow River have suffered widespread collapses of homes, buildings, and structures
▪️From Saturday to Tuesday, 617.1mm of rain fell in Zhengzhou, more than 20cm fell in just 1-hour on Wednesday
▪️14 reservoirs are OVERFLOWING with 100,000 people forced to flee their homes as fears a DAM is in 'imminent' danger of collapse – social media is reporting a 20-meter-long crevasse has appeared in the dam in Yichuan - 2 dams have already collapsed this week
▪️3 major landslides in the Yellow River basin have blocked roads and railway lines
▪️Army deployed to rescue those