Beijing - More than 500 reservoirs were damaged by Monday's devastating earthquake in south-western China, posing a flood risk to several towns and cities, the government said on Thursday, prompting troops to evacuate as many people as possible from one town close to the epicentre of the quake. A lake had formed on the Bai He river upstream from Beichuan town after a landslide caused by the earthquake blocked the river, an official from the Sichuan Seismological Bureau told Deutsche Presse-Agentur
