Li Jiuwu, chief of the armed police brigade in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi autonomous region, holds a girl he rescued from flooding in the city's Ronghe district. More than 1,500 people were rescued from flood-stricken areas of the city at the weekend.
About 20,000 soldiers and volunteers were working round the clock to save the city from flooding, a provincial official said yesterday. The mass mobilisation was called after the water level of the Yongjiang River hit the danger level after days of heavy rain following the end of Typhoon Durian and the arrival of Typhoon Utor late last week.
'Water began to flow over the dam at Guanyongquan on Saturday evening,' Liu Shesong, director of the Guangxi Flood Control Office, said yesterday. Makeshift flood-prevention materials such as sandbags have been piled up along the river to prevent flooding.
