A local resident sails a makeshift raft as she delivers some
belongings to her home at a flooded street near Bangbu at east
China's Anhui Province July 13, 2007. Hundreds of
thousands of villagers in east China were fleeing the worst flood
on a major river in more than 50 years on Friday, facing shortages
of medicine, fuel and food with more rain forecast, media said.
Children sail a boat in a flooded street near Bangbu in east
China's Anhui Province July 12, 2007. Almost half a million people
have been evacuated from the flood basin of China's Huai River,
swollen to its highest level in over half a century, with their
misery compounded by a plague of rats blamed on a scarcity of
snakes and owls. Most of the evacuees are villagers from the
dirt-poor eastern province of Anhui with the rest from Henan to the northwest and Jiangsu to the east.
A local resident stands in a wooden barrel as he sails around
his house in a flooded street near Bangbu in east China's Anhui
Province July 13, 2007. Hundreds of thousands of villagers in east
China were fleeing the worst flood on a major river in more than 50
years on Friday, facing shortages of medicine, fuel and food with
more rain forecast, media said.
(China Daily July 14, 2007)
