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News (1)
Big explosion in Dengfeng, Henan, hits red sky, shatters houses four miles away
On 20 July 2021, disasters broke out in Henan Province, China.
At around 6 am, many residents in Dengfeng, a city under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou, were awakened by a loud noise and found that their houses were shaking.
Video circulating on the Internet shows that at that time, there were several explosions in Quhe Village, Daocheng Town, Dengfeng. Each explosion produced a hemispherical "shock wave" that spread out rapidly. The flame at the explosion point soared very high, dyeing the entire sky red; at the same time, the mushroom cloud soared straight into the sky. The scene was shocking.
After the incident, many local people shared online and said, “The shock wave was too big, and many people thought it was an earthquake.” “What exploded, there was an obvious shock wave like a missile.” “This power can be known from the mushroom cloud. "Lack of fright."
A villager in Yeshang Village who lives 4 miles away (2 kilometers) revealed that she was asleep when she suddenly heard "a continuous thumping sound" outside the window, and then there was a cracking sound of glass. She got up to check and found that there was a block in the bedroom. The glass was shattered, the roof ceiling slightly collapsed, and the joints cracked. Someone also said, "The windows a few kilometers away are all shattered."
According to the official website of the Dengfeng Municipal Government of Henan Province, the local "Dengdian Group Aluminum Alloy Co., Ltd." was responsible for the explosion. At about 4 in the morning of the incident, the water level of the Yinghe River near the company soared and exceeded the warning level. Due to the soaring water level of the river, the wall collapsed, the factory area was flooded, and the internal personnel had been evacuated, and there were no casualties for the time being.
At present, the entire plant has ceased production, involving an operating capacity of more than 40,000 tons.
So, what caused the explosion?
The report stated that the high-temperature solution in the alloy tank exploded because the flood spread to the plant area.
News (2)
Henan was hit by extreme rains, Gongyi mountain torrents broke out
The floods in Zhengzhou not only caused a big explosion, but also caused other serious disasters. The scenes of dangerous situations that came out shocked China and foreign countries.
In the past few days, the whole province of Henan has been hit by a wide range of extreme heavy rains. According to data from the Henan Meteorological Service Center, as of 11 a.m. on the 20th, monitoring for 3 consecutive days showed that Songshan, Gongyi, Xinmi, and Dengfeng under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou City, and Yanshi under the jurisdiction of Luoyang City, these 5 National weather stations have broken through the historical extreme value of precipitation for three consecutive days since the station was established.
Ranked fifth in Dengfeng, the precipitation reached 288.3 mm on the 3rd, far exceeding the previous record of 233.1 mm. In Songshan, which ranks first, the precipitation is as high as 512.2 mm, which is almost equal to the lower limit of the annual precipitation during the normal period.
The continuous extreme rainfall has caused mountain torrents and severe flooding in many places.
On the 20th, roads in many villages in Gongyi became rivers, and many netizens posted on the Internet asking for help, showing that there were landslides, power outages, and loss of connections everywhere.
Someone said, “Many villages and towns in Gongyi were washed out by the heavy rain, and many people could not be contacted. Can you let the relevant departments come to rescue.” “The whole village in Heluo Town, Gongyi, was flooded. The cars were all rushed out. It is said that a three-story building collapsed. The couple was buried underneath and they have not been rescued.
Some people also said, "Help, Gongyi can't survive. The (water) is too deep, rainstorms and torrents, the house collapsed, it was all flooded to the second floor, and the roof, big trees, telephone poles, all fell down, No one was rescued either. Water and electricity and food... I didn't experience it personally and I didn't realize how serious it was... Please pay attention to the Gongyi torrential rain!!! Please pay attention to the Gongyi mountain torrents!!!"
News (3)
The flood has surpassed the chest
In the urban area of Zhengzhou, due to the high water level, pure electric buses have ceased operation at 2:30 pm on the 20th.
A woman was standing on the side of the main road and wanted to take some live footage of everyone. When the filming started, she saw a father and a child being quickly rushed by the flood. The adult kept trying to stand up and shouting "Help", the child hardly struggled in the water.
News (4)
The shocks of Zhengzhou Metro Line 5
In addition, the outside world is most concerned about the siege of the local Metro Line 5.
A video showed that people in the entire vehicle were trapped in the carriages of Line 5, and the place of stay was between "Bansi Temple and Shakou Road Station". Some carriages were flooded to the position of their calves; while in some carriages, water The passengers had no chests, and the passengers urgently asked for help.
At about 9.30 pm, a Zhengzhou netizen confirmed to the Epoch Times reporter that two of his colleagues were also trapped in the car, and it was not clear which car they were in. He dialed 119 and 110, but they couldn't get through. He was able to contact his colleagues, but he was afraid that the phone would be out of power for a while, and he was afraid of hypoxia in the car.
By about 10.30 pm, the reporter learned that some people in the carriage had been rescued.
There are pictures showing that after the rescue, multiple people with nose and mouth bleeding were lying on the platform of the subway station, and it is not known whether they still have vital signs. The girl who recorded the video cried for help.
It can be seen that most of the people lying there are young people. The outside world suspects that if the young people are like this, then the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled will be more likely to die?
There was also a message on the Internet that a coach known to a netizen went into the heavily flooded compartment to rescue and found that all the people inside had died due to lack of oxygen and hypothermia. We are currently unable to verify the authenticity of this news, hope it is not true.
News (5)
Weak official rescue? Official media reports are late
In the face of such a disaster, what is the official rescue effort?
We checked the official media Xinhua Net. It posted at 10 o'clock that night that the public security, firefighting, office and other units had arrived at the scene and "rescue is under stress." That's just a few words.
Screenshots of news on the Internet show that local people have spontaneously established rescue groups to call for help and coordinate in the groups. They show that the official rescue is far from enough.
A mainland lawyer named Zhang Xiaoli was also on the subway. Fortunately, she escaped. After leaving the subway station, she sent a WeChat message to Moments, saying, "The last evacuation from the subway was due to the earthquake in Taiwan, and this time the evacuation from the subway was due to flooding in Zhengzhou... The difference is, When evacuating in Taiwan, the subway security checkpoints were directly opened without the need to swipe the card. The evacuation speed is very fast, and Zhengzhou also needs to swipe the card one by one, which is extremely unfavorable for the quick evacuation of the crowd."
Is this rescue, or is it an obstacle to the fleeing people? What is the purpose of swiping points? Is it to ensure that everyone pays the fare?
In addition, have the Chinese Communist Party's media done their due diligence in reporting on this sudden disaster?
A netizen posted a screenshot of the front page of NetEase News on the 20th and angrily said, "China, Zhengzhou, a catastrophe due to heavy rain, the mouthpiece media did not make headlines, and even my big NetEase did not dare to report it. Is this a Chinese media?"
Current affairs commentator Tang Jingyuan also pointed out that The Paper published an article claiming that the trapped people on the subway had been evacuated safely, "there is no danger." But he speculated that the photos on the website were probably from a screenshot of a video on the Internet.
This video shows that many people are still trapped in the tunnel of Metro Line 5. They stood on the narrow platforms on both sides, and the flood rushed through the middle track, approaching the table top. A man dialed the phone and said hurriedly that "hundreds of people" were "waiting for emergency rescue."
Some netizens sighed, "The ground is bright and beautiful, and the ground is full of holes, the epitome of the whole of China."
News (6)
Netizens: Let's work together to overthrow CCP
Another piece of news that aroused anger from the outside world was that at 9:46 pm on the 20th, the Chinese military’s official Weibo "China Military Television Network" posted that heavy rains hit Zhengzhou and caused power outages. The graduation show at the Zhengzhou campus of the Army Artillery and Air Defense Academy was A timeout was imposed, so hundreds of graduate students turned on their mobile phones and sang "There would be no New China without the Communist Party."
Some netizens reprimanded on Twitter, "Please go to the disaster relief first" and "The CCP system has no humanity... Let's work together to overthrow it."
Currently this Weibo has been deleted.
News (7)
CCP media disregard disasters
Qin Peng, a current affairs commentator, pointed out that the People's Daily and other reports on the Zhengzhou floods were late, and they only started reporting until midnight on the 20th and early morning on the 21st. This shows that the Internet Information Office and the Central Propaganda Department should be on the 20th. In the evening, the ban on the floods in Henan was completely lifted. Prior to this, their energies were mainly focused on "heavy rains in Europe, disasters in Germany" and other incidents. Even until 10 pm on the 20th, Henan Satellite TV was still broadcasting the anti-Japanese drama, turning a blind eye to the disaster in the province.
News (8)
A city that resists- German and French TV broadcasts a Hong Kong resistance documentary
Just now I mentioned the resistance to the CCP. Let’s talk about the spirit of resistance of the Hong Kong people, which left a deep impression on the world and received support from all parties.
Last week, the official of the Cannes (Cannes, Cannes) International Film Festival in France suddenly announced that on the 16th, the "Revolution of Our Times" documentary filmed by Hong Kong director Zhou Guanwei will be specially screened. At the same time, another related documentary, "Hong Kong: When a City Rises" (When a City Rises), was also screened online on German-French public television (Arte).
According to a report by Deutsche Welle, the documentary is 103 minutes long and viewers can watch it on the TV station’s official website before October 10.
According to reports, at the beginning of the film, the last governor of Hong Kong Patten said at the power transfer ceremony in 1997, "Hong Kong people should now govern Hong Kong by themselves. This is a promise and an unshakable future." Then, the screen quickly skipped. The scene of peaceful demonstrations for more than two decades, and then jump to the scene of large-scale demonstrations in the “return in progress” in 2019.
The camera followed several groups of protesters to reproduce the movement, including Lennon Wall, Human Chain, the lights on the top of the Lion Rock, the fire on the street, and the smoke from tear gas. The sympathy and support of the citizens against the contenders, as well as the excessive use of force by the police, are also marked by the scenes.
The time span of the film is as long as one year. Some important events include two parades in June 2019, with more than one million people participating, the July 21st indiscriminate attack on the white-clothed men in Yuen Long, and the 8.31 MTR Prince Edward Station. The attack, the November conflict at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the passage of the Minato National Security Law in 2020, all appeared on the screen.
However, the film does not use revolutionary pride as the keynote. The protesters appearing inside are all flesh and blood individuals, like couples walking hand in hand in a shopping mall; young people childishly spend one thousand Hong Kong dollars to buy figure models; wearing black clothes standing on the street, but don’t forget to finish the game first. mobile game.
Deutsche Welle said that what everyone felt from these protesters was more about their personal lives and thinking, as well as their confusion, pain and helplessness. For example, the bail and attorney fees that must be borne after arrest, and the conflicts between family members caused by the struggle are real problems that the protesters need to face. Is it still useful to read the law at this time? Do you want to stay in Hong Kong? These questions cannot be answered in the film, but they remind us that this movement is not over and the story continues.
News (9)
At least 12 dead in Henan flood disaster, tragic videos continue to flow out
Reporter : Jing Zhongming / Editor: Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/07/20/a103170139.html
On 20 July, floods broke out in many places in Henan Province, China. Zhengzhou was even more flooded and the subway was flooded. However, the Chinese Communist Party media was still discussing the European floods in the evening, and praised the official "rescue". With the tragic scene of the disaster in Zhengzhou, especially the videos of the deaths of Zhengzhou subway personnel circulating on the Internet, the official release of the latest figures at 3 o'clock in the morning on 21 July, saying that 12 people were killed in the urban area of Zhengzhou.
According to mainland Chinese media reports, since 16 July 2021, heavy rainfall has caused more than 140,000 people in 17 counties and districts under the jurisdiction of Henan Pingdingshan, Anyang, Jiaozuo, Sanmenxia, Nanyang, Xinyang, Zhoukou, Zhumadian, and Jiyuan Demonstration Zone. According to Henan Meteorological Report, as of the 20th, monitoring for 3 consecutive days showed that the 5 meteorological stations of Songshan, Gongyi, Xinmi, Yanshi, and Dengfeng broke the historical extreme value of precipitation for 3 consecutive days since the station was established.
A large number of videos streaming out on the Internet show that many parts of Henan are covered in a vast ocean, including tragic videos of a large number of casualties. In particular, the accumulation of water in the Zhengzhou subway is more serious. A train on Line 5 was trapped in the tunnel and the water filled the carriage. Videos of deaths and injuries everywhere in subway stations have been uploaded online.
The official death figure is long overdue. The client of the Chinese Communist Party media People’s Daily released a message at 3 a.m. on the 21st, saying that due to the rare and continuous heavy rainfall, the Changzhuang Reservoir, Guojiazui Reservoir and Jialu River in Zhengzhou City were in danger, and serious waterlogging occurred in the urban area of Zhengzhou. As a result, Zhengzhou's railway, highway and civil aviation traffic were severely affected. At present, 12 people have died in Zhengzhou city.
Zhengzhou's official Weibo "Zhengzhou Release" post stated that there was serious water accumulation in the Wulongkou parking lot and surrounding areas of Zhengzhou Metro Line 5. At about 6 o'clock in the evening yesterday, the stagnant water broke through the retaining wall and entered the section of the line. The train of Line 5 was suspended at the tunnels of Beach Temple Street Station and Shakou Road Station. More than 500 people were evacuated, of which 12 died and 5 were injured.
In addition to the heavy casualties caused by the flooding of the subway, the Internet has also reported that many people have been walked in the flood, struggling helplessly in the flood, or floating corpses outdoors, or being electrocuted to the ground, and the onlookers are helpless.
However, some netizens said that the floods suffered heavy casualties and officials may cover up the true death toll.
At the same time, the Chinese Communist Party media is still discussing the floods in Europe and playing down the tragic floods in China. The limited reports on the floods in China focused on boasting about how "effective" the official defense and rescue of the floods is.
On social media, some people in the media cut the tragic scenes of the Henan floods with the CCTV video advocating "effective disaster prevention", which they regarded as "excellent irony."
News (10)
Video of multiple corpses lying in Zhengzhou subway exposed
Reporter : Zheng Gusheng / Editor: Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/07/20/a103170062.html
Image : Online video shows that on July 20, the video of multiple corpses lying in the Zhengzhou subway station was exposed. (Tweet video screenshot)
On 20 July, many parts of Henan Province in China suffered record-breaking rainstorms and floods everywhere. The provincial capital Zhengzhou has become a vast ocean, and the water accumulation in the subway is more serious. A train on Line 5 is trapped in the tunnel and the water is flooding the carriage. Later on the Internet came videos of casualties everywhere in subway stations. However, local officials claimed that the trapped passengers "have been safely evacuated."
On 20 July, multiple videos were uploaded on the Internet showing that heavy rain in Zhengzhou caused water to flood in multiple subway stations, and the water spread to the carriage submerged seats. The video showed that the water in the carriage had flooded the chest of passengers. With their shoulders exposed above the water, passengers are anxiously using their mobile phones to send messages online for help, and some female passengers are crying out of fear.
Among them, a netizen named Xiaopei asked for help on social media, saying that he was trapped in the tunnel of Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 and the car was flooded. According to news from Henan fire department, Xiao Pei was rescued at 9 o'clock in the evening, and he was a host.
There is also a video showing that it is suspected that some passengers did not guard the car, but escaped from the car, waiting for rescue on both sides of the tunnel. A passenger who escaped from the carriage called for help and shouted: "There are still hundreds of people in the carriage, waiting for emergency rescue!"
Subsequently, several videos were posted online, showing that there were many corpses placed in a subway station in Zhengzhou. One of the videos showed that there were at least four bodies on the floor of the subway station and one person was being rescued. In the video, a female voice called for help anxiously and mentioned that it was at Shakou Road Station near the trapped train on Line 5.
Another video shows the remains of two young men and women. The video shooter said: "They were all carried out. There are two here, three here, and one here is doing cardiopulmonary (resuscitation)."
Another video showed suspected dead bodies placed on the platform benches. There are many people in the rescue, suspected to have just been rescued from the tunnel, still in hypothermia and hypoxia.
Screenshots of the help messages of many trapped passengers are also circulating on the Internet. Some people say that there is a lack of air in the cabin, and many people are already in a state of hypoxia and have difficulty speaking. Other rescued passengers said that the trapped people "only rescued a part."
There was also unconfirmed news that came out late at night showing that some of the trapped places suffered heavy casualties due to hypothermia and hypoxia.
At around 8pm that same day, the official WeChat account of the Zhengzhou Propaganda Department “@郑报” issued a document confirming that there was a train stop before 6pm in the tunnel from Beach Temple Station to Shakou Road Station on Line 5. However, Guan Wei only mentioned that there were passengers who got off the bus and waited on the side of the tunnel. He did not mention that there were still people trapped in the carriage. He also said that the passengers had “have been evacuated safely” and “there is no danger”.
It is worth noting that when the news was released by "@郑州报", the passengers in the carriage were still waiting for rescue in fear. After the news was released, almost the national party media forwarded it as soon as possible, claiming that "the passengers trapped in Zhengzhou Line 5 have been rescued." The trapped passengers were very angry when they saw the news on their mobile phones and urgently launched self-help, calling on netizens to take action to spread the distress message on Line 5 so as not to be annihilated by the official "stability maintenance public opinion".
The rescue operations of netizens seem to have had an effect. At present, the above-mentioned news of "@郑报" has disappeared. At 9:24 a.m., "@郑州报" issued another Weibo, claiming that Xiao Pei, who was trapped in a subway line 5 car, had been rescued at 8:35.
Current political commentator Tang Jingyuan said that judging from the current situation, the death toll in this tragedy is at least double digits, and the incident may become a key target of the CCP's official ban.
Recently, floods in many places on the North China Plain, including Hebei and Henan. However, the focus of party media reports is still on the floods in Europe, and reports of domestic floods are just how "effective" the official rescue is. Many netizens denounced that "Chinese lives are not as expensive as Europeans"!
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