BEIJING (AFP): A manicured hand touches the train carriage window as a brown swirl of floodwater squeezes up against the tunnel outside -- one of many scenes of desperation from an underground tragedy shared Wednesday (July 21) across a stunned Chinese social media. At least 12died and five others were injured in the subway flood, according to city authorities, as water coursed below ground on Tuesday evening in Zhengzhou in central China's Henan province. Social media platform Weibo and local media outlets carried fragments of the horror -- video posts seemingly made as a final testimony -- of chest-high and rising water inside carriages as lights went out on the city's 'Line Five' during the commuter rush hour. She was making her way home around 5pm on Tuesday when her train halted between two stations close to the city centre. "In the half-hour that, followed the water level became higher and higher inside the train, from our ankles to our knees to our necks."

Source: The Star July 21, 2021 08:55 UTC