The region is seeing some of the worst rainfall on record, and Hong Kong and southern Chinese cities are also dealing with catastrophic flooding.

As schools and places of employment were closed on Friday, Hong Kong’s streets and subway stations were under water.

The rainstorm, which started on Thursday, was the heaviest to batter the city in almost 140 years, according to the weather bureau.

According to emergency services, several rescue operations resulted in the hospitalization of more than 100 people.

On Thursday night, images from the city indicated that the torrential rain had turned the streets into raging rivers and had flooded the city’s shopping malls and public transportation.

Social media videos showed people boarding vehicles and other high platforms to escape the rising waves, which in some places reached several meters high.

The Kowloon peninsula in the city’s north, which is connected to the main island by the cross-harbour tunnel, was flooded. In Hong Kong’s mountainous regions, the rain also caused landslides, which blocked certain routes.