Jul 24, 2010
100,000 evacuated in China
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Firemen trying to clean up flood m&d street by Jialing River. -- PHOTO: AFP
<!-- story content : start --> BEIJING - CHINA evacuated more than 100,000 people as a river burst its banks and heavy rains continued in flood-hit regions along the perilously swollen Yangtze river, state media said on Saturday. At least 100,000 were evacuated from their homes in south-western Sichuan province after torrential rains caused waters to rise sharply in the Jialing River, a provincial news website said.
The Jialing is a major tributary of the Yangtze, China's longest river. China has seen its worst flooding in a decade, leaving at least 1,100 people dead or missing, causing massive economic losses, and impacting 120 million people, the government has said. In Shaanxi province on Sichuan's north, the Luofu river burst its banks in the city of Huayin, forcing 6,400 people from their homes, official Xinhua news agency said. The Luofu feeds into the Yellow river, China's second-longest. -- AFP
