| Chinese soldiers evacuate university students from a flooded campus in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian Province, August 19, 2007. Some 2,500 students from Fuzhou University were relocated to safe areas after their campus was submerged and the electricity was cut off for one day due to the typhoon Sepat. The typhoon damaged 366 houses in Quanzhou, inundated 5,920 hectares of crops, and cut off road traffic and power supply lines, affecting 162,600 people and inflicting an economic loss of 72 million yuan, local authorities said. (Xinhua) |
