2 billion mice overrun lake area
(Rednet.cn) Updated: 2007-07-13 11:21
![A field mouse is seen near Dongting Lake, Central China's Hunan Province in July 2007. People living in communities surrounding a Dongting Lake have been overrun by field mice after floodwaters drove the rodents out of islands on the lake. An estimated 2 billion mice are ravaging crops in 22 counties around the lake, and authorities were rushing to construct walls and ditches to keep the rodents out. [Hu Hua/Rednet.cn]](xin_0207041311326362261093.jpg)
A field mouse is seen near Dongting Lake, Central China's Hunan
Province in July 2007. People living in communities surrounding a Dongting Lake
have been overrun by field mice after floodwaters drove the rodents out of
islands on the lake. An estimated 2 billion mice are ravaging crops in 22
counties around the lake, and authorities were rushing to construct walls and
ditches to keep the rodents out. [Hu Hua/Rednet.cn]
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