More than 7,000 Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers,
along with armed policemen and reservists are helping rescue
victims of the on-going flooding in east China's Fujian Province.
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PLA bases in Fujian have dispatched more than 2,000 reserve
officers and soldiers to the Changting County, Gutian County and
Jiangle County to facilitate the rescue efforts.
The armed policemen and reservists also helped out many young
high school students who would suppose to take college entrance
exam on Wednesday but where stranded by floods.
The weather prevented 4,565 students in Jian'ou city, central
Fujian, from sitting for the exams, said the local education
bureau.
Rainstorms have pelted the central and northern areas of this
east Chinese coastal province since Sunday causing many local
rivers in the province to overflow their banks.
Forty-one people have died in the floods, according to the
Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on
Thursday.
Floods have caused many landslide and mudslides, destroying
9,300 houses and ruining crops on some 100,670 hectares of farmland
in 35 counties and cities.
(Xinhua News Agency June 9, 2006)
