China orders new mass evacuation from flood threat

More than a million people have been ordered to evacuate a valley in central China threatened with flooding from a growing lake formed by the earthquake.

More than a million people have been ordered to evacuate a valley in central China threatened with flooding from a growing lake formed by the earthquake.

Soldiers are still working frantically to dig drainage channels through the dam of debris from a landslide caused by the May 12 quake in the Mianyang region.

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