Residents holding onto safety lines waded cautiously through knee-deep floodwaters late on Thursday in Shenzhen, a metropolis of 17.7 million people, videos from state-backed Xinhua showed. Daily rainfall in the city located in the Pearl River Delta linking Hong Kong to China's mainland was expected to exceed 500 mm, Shenzhen media said. Still, Shenzhen's observatory has issued emergency warnings advising residents to stay indoors, warning downpours were abrupt and intense. Some Shenzhen districts closed offices while all schools were suspended. Authorities suspended services at Liantang Port and Wenjindu Port connecting Shenzhen and Hong Kong due to flood damage.

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Persons: Haikui, Liz Lee, Neil Fullick Organizations: cnsphoto, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, China Meteorological Administration, Xinhua, Authorities, Thomson Locations: Minhou county, Fuzhou, Fujian province, China, Rights BEIJING, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Fujian, Waters, Futian, Liantang, Wenjindu Port, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Shanghai