Residents and rescue workers evacuate towards higher ground from the centre of earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, May 17, 2008. Beichuan county near the epicentre of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake was ordered to evacuate immediately Saturday from areas around a lake that is rising rapidly and may burst at any time.

 
 
 
 

(China Daily via Agencies May 18, 2008)