Soldiers try to block the flow of floodwaters with their bodies and sand bags as a flood-prevention dike is destroyed by incessant floods on a section of the Huai River, swollen to its highest level in over half a century, in Chuzhou, East China's Anhui Province July 16, 2007. Some 100 soldiers have been dispatched to oversee a 6,500-meter deluge-prevention dike along the river. [Newsphoto]

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