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VIDEO: China villagers flee flood threat
18 May 2008 19:18:00 GMT
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May 18 - Death and destruction in Beichuan county as hungry and tired villagers struggle for survival.

Beichuan, one of the hardest-hit areas by the earthquake in south-western China's Sichuan Province quietened down after thousands of Chinese fled to the hills on Saturday (May 18) amid fears a lake formed near the epicentre of this week's earthquake would burst its banks.

Kitty Bu reports.




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A school bag and books are placed beside a grave at a makeshift graveyard in the earthquake shaken town of Hongbai, Sichuan province May 18, 2008.Thousands of soldiers and families looking ...



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