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 BEIJING (AP) - Nearly a half-million people fled a flood zone surrounding central China's swollen Huai River, while high waters in the south unleashed a plague of an estimated 2 billion field mice that were ravaging crops, state media reported Thursday.
Continuous rain since June has raised the river to dangerous levels. The official Xinhua News Agency said the region was bracing for its worst floods in decades.
Xinhua said that 488,800 people had been evacuated from the central provinces of Anhui, Henan and Jiangsu, and that several cities and railway lines were in danger of being inundated.
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