Chinese battle against time to drain quake lake


  • World
  • Friday, 30 May 2008

MIANYANG, China (Reuters) - Chinese troops racing to drain a swelling "earthquake lake" made progress digging a diversion channel and officials sought to assure residents that no mass evacuation of a nearby city was planned.

The landslide-blocked river at Tangjiashan in southwest China's Sichuan province is now the most pressing danger after an earthquake devastated the region on May 12.

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