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China's wall of sandbags

Troops have fired missiles and used dynamite to help blast out a sluice channel to drain off a huge volume of water from the Tangjiashan quake lake. Worried that the Tangjiashan dam could now burst in a sudden rush, officials have evacuated more than 250,000 people from downstream areas. Some 600 armed police and soldiers have worked for six days to dig a 475-metre channel to run off water from the lake in Beichuan County.

Reuters | June 9, 2008Watch more videos from Reuters

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