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May 2006 | Edition Four |
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| Duan Delian from Zhongbao Village cries as she holds her daughter Rongrong after being reunited in a refugee camp three days after they were separated by a sudden flood on August 4, 1998. In the summer of 1998, the most disastrous flood since 1954 ravished towns and villages along the Yangtze River, killing 3,004 people and causing damage of 300 billion yuan (about USD 36.25 billion). Zhongbao Village in Paizhouwan was completely submerged on the evening of August 1. All of a sudden, the embankment protecting them from the river collasped and released torrential floods. |
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