Horror on 'Line 5' as Chinese subway floods

Survivors said parents lifted their children above the torrent as dread gripped the carriages. - WEIBO/AFP

BEIJING (AFP): 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 (July 21) across a stunned Chinese social media.

At least 12died 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.