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Another dike breach found in rain-battered Hubei

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2016-07-21 11:30Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping
Photo taken on July 21, 2016 shows a dike breach of Hanbei River in Tianmen City, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi)

Photo taken on July 21, 2016 shows a dike breach of Hanbei River in Tianmen City, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi)

Another breached dike was found on a subsidiary of Hanjiang River in central China's Hubei Province, one day after workers completed repair work on the banks of the Kaotian River in the province.

A water torrent some 30 meters wide was seen in Hanbei River at 9 a.m. Thursday, inundating a large area of farmland.

More than 34,000 residents had been evacuated earlier.

On Wednesday, workers finished a three-day repair project on a 81-meter wide breach on dike of Kaotian River. Some 50,000 cubic meters of stone was used to fill the breach.

The breach resulted in the flooding of seven villages, 1,000 hectares of farmland, and two fishery ponds, while threatening safe passage across several highways and railways.

The rain-battered province is prone to summer flooding.

 

  

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