Local residents transport a car to a safe place after floods hit
Huaibin county of Xinyang, central China's Henan Province July 12.
Almost half a million people have been evacuated from the flood
basin of China's Huai River, swollen to its highest level in over
half a century, with their misery compounded by a plague of rats
blamed on a scarcity of snakes and owls.
A local resident paddles on the floods while a pig sleeps aside.
(China Daily July 13, 2007)
