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Twelve people died after record-breaking rainfall in China flooded railway tunnels and trapped commuters as waters rose everywhere, BBC News reported.
What are the details?
Videos showed evening commuters trying to keep their heads above rising water, the outlet said.
The clip also showed floodwaters bursting through an entryway and onto commuter platforms.
BBC News said more than 500 people were rescued from the railway tunnels in Henan province, and days of rain led to 200,000 evacuations and widespread damage.
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Above ground, roads have been turned into rivers, with cars and debris swept along in fast moving currents. A number of pedestrians have had to be rescued.
In total, 25 people have died in Henan province and more than a dozen cities are affected. President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that there had been "significant loss of life and damage to property."
Several dams and reservoirs have breached warning levels, and soldiers have been mobilized to divert rivers which have burst their banks. Flights and trains in many parts of Henan have also been suspended.
In the provincial capital Zhengzhou, the equivalent of a year's average rainfall has fallen in just three days.
BBC News said some of the city's flood defenses were overwhelmed, after which water began flowing into the railway tunnels. Survivors said water leaked through train doors, rising slowly from "our ankles to our knees to our necks," the outlet reported.
"All of us who could, stood on the subway seats," one woman wrote on the Chinese social network site Weibo, BBC News said, adding that parents lifted their children out of the water while others threw off anything that might hold them down.
One passenger said after about 30 minutes it became "hard to breathe," the outlet added.
BBC News, citing a statement from Zhengzhou government officials, reported that the train line was shut down to enable evacuations, and five people were being treated for injuries, while 12 died.
Nursery school rescue
The outlet also said children had to be rescued from a flooded nursery school as state media aired video of them being floated out in plastic tubs.
"Never in my life had I seen so much rain," one witness said, according to BBC News. "There was one hour where the rain was just pouring down on us from the heavens, and everything went completely white."
Dam in danger of collapsing
To make matters worse, storm damage left a 65-foot breach in a Luoyang city dam, which army officials said could "collapse at any time," the outlet added.
And residents in Sishui were stuck on rooftops, BBC News also reported, with one witness writing on social media, "We don't know how to swim … the whole village is about to be washed away."
What's the background?
Henan province has experienced "rare and severe rainfall" since Saturday, the outlet reported, citing China's meteorological authority.
Zhengzhou saw almost 25 inches of rainfall on Tuesday alone, with a third of that amount falling in just one hour — an event that "smashed historical records," BBC News added.
The outlet also said forecasts said parts of the region would continue to see "severe or extremely severe storms" and that the heavy rain was likely to end only on Thursday.
Anything else?
Last week, intense rain in parts of Germany and Belgium led to deadly floods that overloaded streams, washed away houses and cars, and triggered massive landslides, Science reported, adding that at least 196 people died as of Tuesday.
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VIDEO: Small plane crashes into neighborhood, hits SUV in street. Three dead — including 4-year-old boy who was in SUV with his mom.
Three people were killed — including a child — and one person was injured when a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Pembroke Pines, Florida, Monday afternoon, WTVJ-TV reported.
What happened?
Surveillance video from a home just feet away captured the moment the plane hit the right side of an SUV before careening across a street and bursting into flames.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
Image source: YouTube screenshot
Image source: YouTube screenshot
After impact, the SUV ended up across the street facing in the opposite direction from which it had been traveling. Pembroke Pines Police told the station the crash occurred near Southwest 72nd Avenue and Southwest 13th Street.
Here's the surveillance video:
Surveillance Footage Shows Moment Small Plane Collides Into Vehicle in Pembroke Pines, Bursts...youtu.be
The two people on the plane were killed at the scene, fire rescue officials told WTVJ, while an adult and child in the SUV were taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in serious condition. The station, citing sources, said the adult was later released while the child died late Monday night.
Authorities identified the deceased child as 4-year-old Taylor Bishop, WPLJ-TV reported.
His mother, who also was in the SUV, was identified at a Broward School Board meeting Tuesday as Megan Bishop, WPLJ said, adding that she's a paraprofessional at Hollywood Hills Elementary School.
Authorities identify boy killed when plane strikes SUV in Pembroke Pinesyoutu.be
While Megan and Taylor Bishop were injured, Taylor was trapped and had to be extricated, WPLJ reported, adding that first responders said he was wearing a seatbelt.
Aerial footage showed firefighters spraying down the plane wreckage against an airport fence across the street from the residential neighborhood, WTVJ reported, adding that other pieces of the plane were scattered around the scene of the accident.
Federal Aviation Administration officials told WTVJ the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport around 3 p.m.
Witnesses told WPLJ they saw the plane circling back toward the runway before it took out a power line and crashed.
Annabelle Fernandez told WTVJ she was nearby when the plane went down.
"We heard a tremendous noise, and we went out and everybody was on fire, everything was bad," Fernandez said. "It got to the car. It was a mother with her kid, and we don't know what happened to them. The fire rescue came, and they got them."
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the crash, WTVJ added.
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