Fish swim down flooded city street in China

A small school of orange fish were spotted on the flooded streets of Zhengzhou earlier this week, amid devastating floods which have hit the region in central China.

The eyewitness who took the video was heard saying in Mandarin, "This is too ridiculous! Oh my God!" The video quickly went viral in China.

In Zhengzhou, where the bad weather reached a peak on Tuesday, the skies had cleared although floodwaters were still at waist height, or higher, with entire streets underwater in many areas.

By today, tens of thousands of people were being evacuated from flood-hit regions of central China as officials raised the death toll from heavy rain that has deluged Henan province for almost a week to 33 people.

More cities were inundated and crops destroyed as the severe weather spread northwards, with the official Xinhua news agency reporting direct economic losses of nearly €200m.

Zhengzhou saw 617.1mm of rain from Saturday to Tuesday, almost the equivalent of the city's annual average of 640.8mm.