I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E! Thousands of Swimmers Are Cramped into Swimming Pool in China

After we will be complaining that we are poor in Nigeria... Thousands of swimmers escaped a heat wave in China by cramming into a pool on one of the hottest days of the year in the south-western city of Chongqing with barely no room to move,

According to the Shanghaiist ,government meteorologists had issued an orange alert - the second-highest level on the country's heat scale - for the fourth consecutive day as the temperature peaked at a sweltering 40C

Photos of the crowded pool have gone viral on social media in China, with users questioning whether the pool was safe with so many people in it and whether the water was polluted by the swimmers.

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