Twelve people were killed in the underground rail system of Zhengzhou as torrential rain lashed China’s central province of Henan forcing tens of thousands to evacuate their homes and leaving a dam at risk of collapse. More than 10,000 people in China's Henan province have been evacuated to shelters following the record rainfall., authorities there confirmed, according to BBC reports.
Many factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely. The provincial capital of more than 10 million people had “experienced a series of rare and heavy rainstorms, causing water to accumulate in Zhengzhou metro”, city officials said in a Weibo post on Wednesday, saying 12 people had died and five were injured.
Storms have battered Henan province since the weekend in an unusually active rainy season that has caused rivers to burst their banks, flooding the streets of a dozen cities and upending the daily lives of millions of people. Weather authorities in Zhengzhou, nearly 700 kilometres (431 miles) southeast of Beijing, say the rainfall was the highest since record-keeping began 60 years ago with the city seeing the kind of rain it usually gets in a year in just three days.
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