Armed police extricate elders from flash floods
2010-06-23 09:32:38 GMT2010-06-23 17:32:38 (Beijing Time)
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A squad of armed policemen come to extricate the three elder villagers stranded by precipitous rainfalls which has leveled all the houses, at Jiatou Village, Dagan Town, Shunchang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 21, 2010.(Xinhua/Lin Zhengrong)
A squad of armed policemen come to extricate the three elder villagers stranded by precipitous rainfalls which has leveled all the houses, at Jiatou Village, Dagan Town, Shunchang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 21, 2010.(Xinhua/Lin Zhengrong)
A squad of armed policemen come to extricate the three elder villagers stranded by precipitous rainfalls which has leveled all the houses, at Jiatou Village, Dagan Town, Shunchang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 21, 2010.(Xinhua/Lin Zhengrong)
79-year-old Liao Guotang (front) grieves at the sight of his house levelled by the precipitous rainfalls, as a squad of armed policemen trudge through the mountainous paths to extricate him and other elder villagers stranded by the downpour, at Jiatou Village, Dagan Town, Shunchang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 21, 2010.(Xinhua/Lin Zhengrong)
A squad of armed policemen carry the elders to trudge through the mountainous paths to extricate three elder villagers stranded by precipitous rainfalls which has leveled all the houses, at Jiatou Village, Dagan Town, Shunchang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 21, 2010.(Xinhua/Lin Zhengrong)
An octad of armed policemen directly under the command of the Fujian Armed Police Corps took immediate rescue and relief mission by trudging barefoot over the 30-km-long mountainous paths for some 7 hours to extricate the elders to security belt.
Torrential downpours have triggered flash floods, caused rivers to swell, inundated crops, and disrupted traffic and telecommunications across the south and east China. The county seat of Shunchang has been besieged by floods, as all the roads leading to the county seat were cut off. Telecommunications and Internet were cut off. Water and electricity supplies in some districts were also cut off.
