![Chinese armed police officers and local people clear mud left by a flood on a road July 21, 2009 after a heavy rainstorm hit Maqu County in northwest China's Gansu province, killing at least five people. [Liang Jianming/Xinhua] Chinese armed police officers and local people clear mud left by a flood on a road July 21, 2009 after a heavy rainstorm hit Maqu County in northwest China's Gansu province, killing at least five people. [Liang Jianming/Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090722/000cf1a48b7f0bd0b30c0c.jpg) |
Chinese armed police officers and local people clear mud left by a flood on a road July 21, 2009 after a heavy rainstorm hit Maqu County in northwest China's Gansu province, killing at least five people. [Liang Jianming/Xinhua] |
(Xinhua News Agency July 22, 2009)