Civilians called in as China's river salvage faces challenge

• Source: Xinhua
• [08:24 July 31 2010]
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Workers make defensive nets to block chemical barrels at a river fork in Zhaoyuan section of the Songhua River, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, July 30, 2010. Heilongjiang Province has dispatched soldiers and workers to establish six points on the Songhua River to block the chemical containers, which were swept into the river by floods two days ago in Yongji County of Jilin Province. Photo: Xinhua