Severe floods inundate parts of central China, leaving at least one dead

Powerful floods in central China’s Henan province have submerged streets and prompted harrowing rescues amid what Chinese media called the region’s heaviest rainfall in decades.

Precipitation in Zhengzhou, a city in the province, reached a high of roughly eight inches per hour Tuesday, breaking a 1975 record, according to the English language edition of Global Times, a Communist Party-controlled media outlet. Zhengzhou also broke records for average daily rainfall, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.