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China works round the clock to drain quake lake [1]

Mianzhu: Chinese soldiers were working non-stop to dig a giant sluice to ease pressure on a swelling "quake lake', with plans to evacuate 100,000 people to avert a new disaster, state media said. China on Tuesday put the death toll from the earthquake that struck Sichuan province on May 12 at 67,183, with the figure certain to rise with 20,790 listed as missing. Nearly 362,000 people were injured.

Publication Date: 
28/05/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Lakes [3], Earthquakes [4], Population [5], Family Planning [6], China [7]

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