Poor weather left at least 100,000 travellers stranded in a train station in southern China on Monday as they battled to return home ahead of Chinese New Year celebrations next week.
Vast crowds of migrant workers surged into Guangzhou’s main railway station hoping to make it back to their family homes ahead of Lunar New Year festivities on 8 February that will usher in the Year of the Monkey.
This week’s poor weather has complicated what is already a hugely strenuous time for Chinese authorities.
Local media said the situation was so severe that authorities declared a “level two emergency” and deployed more than 2,600 security guards to watch over the throng.
Thousands of passengers pack a main road as they wait to get into the Guangzhou Railway station.
But on Monday, nearly 100,000 people were stranded at a railway station in Guangzhou as icy weather conditions delayed several trains, stalling travelers who'd hoped to get home before the New Year festivities kick off.
Policemen keep order among passengers stranded due to heavy snow in Guangzhou Railway Station.
Authorities
declared a “level two emergency” and deployed more than 2,600 security guards
to control the crowds, according to The Guardian,
which cites Chinese media.
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