People stranded on rooftops by rain, flooding in China

Authorities deployed helicopters in western China on Tuesday to rescue people stranded by flooding as heavy rain swelled the Yangtze and other rivers to dangerous levels, state media reported. Neighboring Sichuan province and Chongqing municipality both declared the highest-level flood control emergency, a first for Sichuan. In Sichuan, water lapped at the toes of the Leshan Giant Buddha — a towering 8th-century statue carved into a mountainside — for the first time since at least 1949, a government scenic management committee said.

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