Around 100,000 people have been relocated from a central Chinese city known as the world’s biggest production base for iPhones, after record daily rainfall led to widespread flooding and the death of at least 12 people.
The city of Zhengzhou in the central province of Henan saw 457.5 millimeters (18 inches) of rain fall in the 24 hours through 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the highest since records began for the city of more than 10 million people, the official Xinhua news agency reported. That included a record 201.9 millimeters in a single hour, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The