Chinese evacuated from path of quake dam waters
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China is evacuating nearly a million people from an area that risks flooding by landslide- blocked rivers near the epicentre of this month's earthquake in Sichuan province.
Workers have set explosives on a dam formed by the earthquake after thousands of soldiers finished an enormous drainage channel after 10 days of frantic digging.
Long convoys of trucks drove into the disaster area piled with tents and other supplies for evacuees.
An Airbus 380, the world's largest passenger plane, flew into the regional city of Chengdu with emergency supplies.
The movement of thousands of refugees through the disaster area, some of them travelling not on official instructions but out of fear of aftershocks from the quake, continue to hinder the work of reuniting families.
Over 6,000 lost children have been reunited with their parents but 1,800 have still not been able to make contact with family or relatives.
