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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Worst Floods in 56 yrs - China

 Torrential rain across southern and eastern Chinese provinces over recent days has killed more than 100 people, triggered the evacuation of half a million and left large areas of farmland devastated.





Local residents take boats to get out of downtown  
                                                                                                                            




A woman wades through floods
 














A street is inundated by flood water after heavy rain 
















The Xin'anjiang Reservoir, which is at risk of overflowing due to ongoing torrential rains, discharges water from three of its nine floodgates  
 















A girl carries two buckets of clean water to her house through a flooded area
 




























A man paddles a boat through an area affected by the floods















A local resident stands on the fence of her house at an area affected by the floods
 








































A huge sinkhole is seen on a damaged section of a Provincial Highway 221 in Jiangshan city, East China's Zhejiang province, June 19, 2011. The crater is around 20 meters wide and up to 30 meters deep and is believed to have been caused by torrential rain















Cars and pedestrians wade through a flooded road in Wuhan, capital city of Central China's Hubei province, on Saturday, June 18, 2011
 


























A resident stands knee-deep in floodwater in front of an apartment building in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, on Saturday, June 18, 2011





















A bus and a pedestrian wade through a flooded road in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, June 18, 2011.
 

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