Water rushes down from lake created by landslide

Bridge swept away in Sichuan province; people in danger zone are evacuated

Large volumes of water from a lake created by landslides on the border of Sichuan province and the Tibet autonomous region headed downstream with a vengeance on Wednesday, washing away a bridge over the Jinsha River in Sichuan and putting flood control authorities farther downstream in Yunnan province on alert.

The discharge from the lake began on Monday through a man-made channel.