China news today: severe flooding hit Henan province, killing 33 people, 8 more missing. 376 thousand residents of Henan province were evacuated to safe places.
An emergency situation has been declared in Henan province. Heavy continuous rains and the rupture of dams on the Yangtze and Heihe rivers caused severe flooding. In total, the disaster affected more than 3 million citizens in 89 districts of the province.
In Zhengzhou, a train in a subway tunnel went under water. 12 people could not escape from the water trap in the subway, they died.
Rescuers managed to evacuate more than 500 passengers through flooded tunnels.
The local authorities mobilized almost 1.2 thousand police officers, 6.8 thousand firefighters and 730 soldiers of the People's Liberation Army of China to participate in rescue operations and liquidation of the consequences of the disaster.
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