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Spring Flood Submerges City in Inner Mongolia
Floodwaters from melting snow began pouring into Arxan City, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Thursday and have now caused the evacuation of 345 people, local officials said.

The city's Xincheng and Linhai districts are submerged, with some 2,558 households affected, 1,843 of them seriously.

At least 715 families were trapped by the water, which now stands about one meter deep in the flooded areas, the local disaster relief and control center reported.

Local forestry police and frontier defense soldiers have been mobilized to evacuate people and pile up sandbags to try to contain the floodwaters.

Rescue and relief work are still under way.

(Xinhua News Agency April 13, 2004)

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