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China Evacuates 80,000 on Flood Fears

Dam caused by quake-formed landslide threatens to burst

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted May 27, 2008 7:09 AM CDT

(Newser) – Chinese officials hurried to evacuate 80,000 people today near quake-hit Beichuan as waters rose in a dammed river, the AP reports. Soldiers are working to blast and dig a channel to drain some of the 34 billion gallons of water now held by the...   Read full story »

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