292 people were killed in the disaster in Zhengzhou, 39 of them drowned in underground spaces such as subways and tunnels

On August 2, the reporter learned from the tenth “Flood Prevention and Disaster Relief in Henan Province” press conference held by the Henan Provincial Government Information Office that as of 12:00 on August 2, 302 people were killed and 50 people were killed in this catastrophic flood. Missing. Among them, 292 people were killed and 47 people were missing in Zhengzhou City; 7 people were killed and 3 people were missing in Xinxiang City; 2 people were killed in Pingdingshan City; 1 person was killed in Luohe City.

According to the mayor of Zhengzhou City Hou Hong, among the 292 people killed in Zhengzhou, 189 were killed due to floods and mudslides; 54 people were killed due to house collapse; 39 people were drowned due to underground spaces such as basements, garages, and underground pipe corridors. Including the deaths of 14 people on Metro Line 5 and 6 people in the Jingguang Road Tunnel; 10 other people were killed. In Zhengzhou County (city), 64 people were killed in Gongyi City, 58 people in Xingyang City, 46 people in Xinmi City, 12 people in Dengfeng City, 2 people in Xinzheng, and 2 people in Shangjie District, a total of 184 people were killed; five districts and four in the city were killed. A total of 108 people were killed in this development zone.

It is reported that a total of 150 counties (cities, districts), 1663 townships and 14.531,600 people were affected in the province.

The province organized emergency shelters for 933,800 people, with a peak of 1,470,800 transfers and resettlement; 30,106 houses and 8,9001 houses collapsed; the area of ​​crop disasters was 8.72 million mu, and the area of ​​no harvest was 3.8 million mu, and the direct economic loss was 114.269 billion yuan.