Southern China flooding causing major problems
Torrential rains caused a diek to burst in southern China, causing nearly 100,000 people to flee their homes. In response China's top leaders were calling for stepped-up rescue operations. The flooding breached the Changkai levee on the Fu River in Jiangxi province late Monday. The breach forced residents to relocate from their homes in the nearby city of Fuzhou. No casualties have been reported.
The storms have pounded southern China for almost a week, killing at least 199 people, with 123 still missing. There have been landslides that have cut off transportation, and several rivers and reservoirs are overflowing.
State television showed police with pants legs rolled up, pushing boats carrying residents through shallow water. In some places, floodwaters reached nearly to the second story of buildings, while in others only the tops of trees were visible. Soldiers unloaded stacks of rowboats as they raced to rescue residents, many of whom were shown standing helplessly on balconies.
The China Central Television report said some 88,000 people have been displaced. Army and volunteer rescue teams have been working around the clock near Fuzhou to sandbag vulnerable areas, Xinhua said. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao called on rescuers to work hard to control the flood, according to the Jiangxi Provincial Flood Control.
Flooding has affected more than 10 million residents across southern China, with heavy storms expected to move south in the coming days toward Fujian and Guangzhou provinces. China sustains major flooding annually along the mighty Yangtze and other major rivers, but this year's floods have been especially heavy, spreading across nine provinces and regions in the south and along the eastern coast.
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