BEIJING — China's military has blasted a dam to release floodwaters threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces, as the death toll in widespread flooding rose to at least 25.

Water flows out from sluices at the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River near Yichang in central China’s Hubei Province on Friday, July 17, 2020. (Wang Gang / Xinhua) By Associated Press ...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s military has blasted a dam to release floodwaters threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces, as the death toll in widespread flooding rose to at least 25 ...

China's military has blasted a dam to release floodwaters threatening one of the country's most heavily populated provinces, as the death toll from widespread flooding rose to at least 25 ...

The blast is the third atrocity in a week to rock Pakistan, a strategic ally of China and a key link in Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure initiative ...

The blast created some 243,278 cubic yards (186,000 cubic meters) of concrete rubble. The main dam's construction was completed last month amid much fanfare.

India on Friday took a dig China over the establishment of two new counties in Hotan prefecture as parts of these regions fall in Indian UT of Ladakh and said it has lodged a “solemn protest”.

The mudslide disaster in Shenzhen is the latest in a long history of industrial accidents in China. ... has been said that around 100,000 died when the dam, ... China factory blast. Published. 2 ...

Laobaidong Colliery Blasts, 1960. Many of China’s worst disasters have occurred in its notoriously unsafe mines. Of these, ... Banqiao Dam Tragedy, 1975. On Aug. 8, 1975, ...

The blast is the third atrocity in a week to rock Pakistan, a strategic ally of China and a key link in Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure initiative ...