Flood Toll Tops 2,000; Officials Mull Action
From Times Wire Reports
Driven to desperate measures by a flood season that has already killed 2,000 people, Chinese officials were considering the last-ditch step of sacrificing some vulnerable areas to the raging Yangtze River. The decision on whether to break open some dikes along the river in order to protect key waterlogged levees could come today, officials said.
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