Armed Police Soldiers Avert Flooding Disaster

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Armed Police Soldiers Avert Flooding Disaster

Armed police soldiers who swiftly repaired a collapsing dyke along the Chuhe River on Tuesday evening saved more than one million people from the dangerof serious flooding on Tuesday evening.

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Armed police soldiers who swiftly repaired a collapsing dyke along the Chuhe River on Tuesday evening saved more than one million people from the dangerof serious flooding on Tuesday evening.

The dyke on the Chuhe River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, flowing across east China's Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, began to collapse in torrential rain at about 6 p.m. Tuesday.

But soldiers quickly repaired and reinforced the 67-meter-long dyke, averting a flooding threat to the Beijing-Shanghai railway artery and Nanjing City, capital of Jiangsu Province, 50 kilometers away, said officials with Anhui flood control department.

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