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China's 'iPhone city' relocates over 100,000 as floods kill 25

Military blasts dam to divert water threatening heavily populated provinces

Vehicles stranded after a downpour in Zhengzhou city, central China's  Henan province. Photo: Chinatopix Via AP
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Vehicles stranded after a downpour in Zhengzhou city, central China's Henan province. Photo: Chinatopix Via AP

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More than two dozen people have died and over 100,000 have been evacuated as catastrophic floods swept through the central Chinese province of Henan.
 
China Central Television reported that 25 people have been killed while seven others are missing, citing a local government briefing. The city of Zhengzhou earlier said at least 12 died on a subway there. 
 
The floods in China come just days after devastating floods in Germany killed at least 160 people and follows extreme weather around the world. In recent months there’s been heatwaves in the US and Canada, major floods in India, wildfires in Siberia

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