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Chinese workers try to prevent water from the "quake-lake" Tangjiashan from flooding of the nearby town of Beichuan, Sichuan province, southwest China, May 2008.

Workers used bulldozers, dynamite and 10 small missiles fired by soldiers to create diversion channels to drain water from the lake. The lake was created after the earthquake caused landslides, which blocked the river with a precarious dam of boulders.

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