Saturday, 7 June 2008
new warnings over possible flooding in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan
Residents walk along the riverbed downstream of the Tangjiashan quake-formed lake where a landslide has choked off the river runoff and now threatens to burst near Mianyang, in southwest China's Sichuan province, Friday, June 6, 2008. Residents living in low lying areas of Mianyang near the Fu river has been ordered to move to higher grounds in anticipation of the eventual release of water from the lake upstream in Tangjiashan.
A resident tries to fish on the riverbed downstream of the Tangjiashan quake lake where a landslide have choked off the river runoff and now threatens to burst near in Mianyang, southwestern China's Sichuan province on Friday, June 6, 2008. Residents living in low-lying areas of Mianyang near the Fu river has been ordered to move to higher grounds in anticipation of the eventual release of water from the quake lake upstream in Tangjiashan.
A man looks at Fu River in Mianyang of China's Sichuan province Thursday June 5, 2008. Authorities sounded new warnings over possible flooding in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province as the water level in a lake formed by landslides continued to rise Thursday.
An abandoned shelter near a river downstream from the Tangjiashan quake lake near Mianyang, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Friday, June 6, 2008. Residents living in low lying areas of Mianyang near the Fu river has been ordered to move to higher grounds in anticipation of the eventual release of water from the Tangjiasha quake lake upstream.
A man looks at Fu River in Mianyang of China's Sichuan province Thursday June 5, 2008. Authorities sounded new warnings over possible flooding in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province as the water level in a lake formed by landslides continued to rise Thursday.
Earthquake survivors carry their belongings as they walk through a landslide while evacuating from quake-hit Qingchuan of southwest China's Sichuan province Thursday, June 5, 2008. China ordered refugees to higher ground as a brimming lake formed by landslides from the massive May 12 earthquake continued to rise. A magnitude 5.3 aftershock struck the quake-battered region in Sichuan province, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
Earthquake survivors carry their belonging as they evacuate from the quake-hit town of Qingchuan in southwest China's Sichuan province, Thursday, June 5, 2008. China ordered refugees to higher ground as a brimming lake formed by landslides from the massive May 12 earthquake continued to rise. A magnitude 5.3 aftershock struck the quake-battered region in Sichuan province, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
A Chinese man drives a farm machinery past dozens of wreaths left by parents whose children died after a school collapse during the May 12 earthquake in Jiulong, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Thursday, June 5, 2008. The government has promised to investigate the collapses that destroyed about 7,000 classrooms and which some parents have suspected is due to shoddy construction.
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