Fresh breach in battered dike
By DUAN YAN and YAN JIE | China Daily | Updated: 2010-06-24 07:38
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A resident of Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, calls out to a rescue boat as he holds on to his child on Wednesday. The local Changkai dike suffered a fresh breach after an earlier break in its banks on Monday. Aly Song / Reuters |
FUZHOU, Jiangxi - A flood-battered dike in East China's Jiangxi province suffered a fresh breach on Wednesday as heavy flooding that have killed scores of people nationwide in the past week intensified. More than 100,000 residents in the area had already fled after an earlier break in its wall on Monday.
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