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Photo of the Day: Flood season in China

flood.jpgVillagers help a pregnant woman evacuating from her home in low-lying areas along a water-flooded street in Zi Jin County, South China's Guangdong Province June 10, 2007. It is the worst flood to threaten 15 towns of the county in 50 years.Floods and landslides have killed 1,292 people and left another 332 missing this flood season in China, and crops on at least 15.43 million hectares of farmland have been destroyed and 1.22 million houses ruined, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said on Saturday.

Photo from China Daily.

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