Asbestos cloth got tangled in a bus wheel in Zhengzhou, Henan Province Tuesday as a heat wave swept vast areas of China.

A heat wave that has swept vast areas of China melted an asphalt road Tuesday in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, causing several vehicles to get stuck.

Six vehicles including buses and an ambulance got stuck, causing a traffic jam.

One car owner surnamed Cao said he had been on his way to pick up his child after school when asbestos cloth under the melting asphalt got tangled with his car's two front wheels.

He managed to cut the cloth off the left wheel but had to remove the right wheel from the car.

A taxi and an ambulance narrowly avoided colliding into each other after the two vehicles were both tangled in the same length of asbestos cloth.

The ambulance driver said that it was lucky that he had not been involved in an emergency situation with a patient at the time, and no patients were in the ambulance.

The road was paved with asphalt just a few hours earlier, and a construction team was planning to cover the asphalt with a layer of concrete.

The water mixed in the asphalt evaporated, eventually resulting in a sticky road, the construction team managers said.

They added that they will reconsider the ratio of water and emulsion in the materials.

Two sedan drivers cleaned the asbestos cloth off their vehicle wheels. Several vehicles were stuck on the road as the heat wave melted the asphalt on a road in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.