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dam-l Agence France Presse (AFP) "3/24 Seven Killed in China Dam (fwd)



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Subject: Agence France Presse (AFP) "3/24 Seven Killed in China Dam
  Burst"  and "3/13 Ten Die After Bridge Collapse Near China's Three
  Gorges Dam"
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China-dam
   Seven Killed in China Dam Burst

   BEIJING, March 24 (AFP) - Seven people were killed when a newly-built
dam in the central province of Hubei burst earlier this month washing away
three homes, the Farmers' Daily reported Tuesday.
   Some 300,000 cubic metres of water spilled out of the dam and flooded in
a torrent onto the village of Haokou, in the Tanjiangkou municipality on
March 8, the paper said.
   Investigators found there had not been any official request for
permission to build the dam, which was built two months earlier on the
river Xiaozhaizi for irrigation purposes.
   bar/jkb


China-dam-accident
   Ten Die After Bridge Collapse Near China's Three Gorges Dam

   BEIJING, March 13 (AFP) - Ten people were killed and 15 others injured
after a bridge under construction near the Three Gorges dam collapsed, a
local newspaper received in Beijing Friday said.
   The accident happened on February 20, when the 48 metre long (158 ft),
10.5 metre (34,5 ft) wide bridge fell from a height of 29 metres (96 ft),
the daily Nanguo Zaobao's March 6th edition said.
   The newspaper did not say if the dead were construction workers.
   The news came out a day after a report published by US organisations
International Rivers Network and Human Rights in China confirmed that the
construction of the world's biggest dam is plagued with corruption and bad
management, notably with regard to rehousing the 1.8 million people who
will be displaced by rising water.
   bar/shs/jkb




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