Monday, December 03, 2007

Another Yangtze bank caves in

At the Yangtze at Wuhu another bank has caved in on Saturday, probably sending a few hundred meters including warehouses and cranes, AllroadsleadtoChina picked up from Reuters.
While the local government is trying to disconnect these incidents from gloomy environmental predictions, the rising water in the three-Gorges basin is still one of the options for this cave-in:
Xinhua cited a local official as saying the collapse could have been caused by a vortex of water. It said others believed construction at a nearby shipyard might have loosened the foundations of a dyke and caused the collapse.

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