Horror As Chinese Subway Floods - Scenes Of Despair, Devastation

At least twelve died 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.

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 across a stunned Chinese social media. Zhengzhou, China.Think your commute is bad?Try getting stuck in a flooded subway train. pic.twitter.com/gE3neHRwhv At least twelve died 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.