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Flood control and rescue efforts at Dongting Lake in Hunan province reached a crucial phase late on Monday night, with a breached dike sealed at around 10:30 pm.▲Rescuers seal the dike breach in the Dongting Lake in Yueyang, Central China's Hunan province, July 8, 2024. Rescue personnel successfully sealed a 226-meter breach in a dike at China's second-largest freshwater lake at 10:31 pm Monday, according to local authorities. [Photo/Xinhua]The breach, 226 meters wide, occurred at around 5:48 pm on Friday at a dike in Tuanzhou, a township in Huarong county in the city of Yueyang, which is part of a dike network around Dongting Lake, China's second-largest freshwater lake.Zhang Yingchun, Hunan's executive vice-governor, said more than 100,000 cubic meters of rock have been used in sealing off the breach, and crews had been sealing off 3.5 meters of the breach an hour.Following the dike breach, a large volume of water from Dongting Lake rushed into the Tuanzhou dike region, flooding 47
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