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A severe thunderstorm causes flash flooding in Toronto during the evening rush hour on Monday, causing chaos on the roads and shutting down the city's transport network.

The flooding cut power to at least 300,000 people in Canada's largest city, shutting down the metro system and leaving over a thousand passengers stranded for hours on a commuter train filled with gushing water.

Environment Canada said some parts of the city had been drenched with a record 10 centimetres of rain.

Scores of Toronto police and firefighters used boats to rescue commuters from a 10-car, double-decker train that had stalled in floodwaters reaching up to the lower windows. The train was carrying about 1,400 passengers when it became stranded.

"There's a full-on river on either side of us... We. Are. Stuck. Hard," passenger Jonah Cait wrote on Twitter.

Another passenger told the TV news network CP24 that she could see people clinging to trees after abandoning their cars on a flooded road alongside the tracks.

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