Dam burst kills 11
August 12, 2012, Sunday
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ELEVEN people were yesterday confirmed dead in floods after a dam burst in east China's Zhejiang Province on Friday.
Yesterday, rescuers retrieved the body of a woman a kilometer downstream from the Shenjiakeng Reservoir, a rainwater pooling dam in Daishan County in the city of Zhoushan, said a statement by the county government. The reservoir's 28.5-meter-high earthen dam collapsed around 5am on Friday, flooding a downstream village. Twenty-seven people were injured in the flood. "It took only few minutes for the dam to collapse," recalled one resident who managed to escape his flooded home.
Yesterday, rescuers retrieved the body of a woman a kilometer downstream from the Shenjiakeng Reservoir, a rainwater pooling dam in Daishan County in the city of Zhoushan, said a statement by the county government. The reservoir's 28.5-meter-high earthen dam collapsed around 5am on Friday, flooding a downstream village. Twenty-seven people were injured in the flood. "It took only few minutes for the dam to collapse," recalled one resident who managed to escape his flooded home.
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