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October 5th, 2005

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New Orleans along the Yangtze

Troops swept away

China said 59 of its soldiers were washed away by raging floodwaters sparked by typhoon Longwang, and the country’s president called for an all-out search yesterday. The 59 soldiers, members of China’s paramilitary armed police in charge of domestic security, were in a training school barracks in Fujian province when the violent floods hit last night. Two buildings at the school were washed away.

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Mutantfrog
October 5, 2005
12:30 pm
That's hardly up there with Katrina. If anything, that's not even a remotely exceptional amount of damage for a typhoon that's hit the Chinese mainland, except it was soldiers instead of peasants being washed away, so the government cares a little more.
Curzon
October 5, 2005
1:55 pm
Indeed -- this probably happens a lot, and it only got in the news because it was soldiers dying, not peasants.
sun bin
October 6, 2005
3:11 am
many (more) soldiers died in previous flood fighting.
the difference this time is it is no longer a 'state secret'

so there is progrerss in china.