A helicopter takes off after transporting facilities to the Tangjiashan 'quake lake' in the quake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province May 30, 2008. China has evacuated over 197,000 people from an area that risks flooding by landslide- blocked rivers near the epicentre of this month's earthquake in Sichuan province, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters – Engineers have completed work
to drain a lake formed by last month’s earthquake that had
threatened to inundate towns downstream and add to the toll of
China’s deadliest natural disaster in more than 30 years.

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