Soldiers on Saturday carry wooden boards to reinforce dikes after flooding breached a dike in the town of Tongda in East China’s Anhui province.

Soldiers shoulder sandbags to reinforce dikes.

A soldier prepares to carry a sandbag.

Soldiers work to build a temporary embankment in the floodwaters.

A fifty-meter breach in a dike in Luyang county on Thursday.

Residents sit in a shelter after evacuating from Tongda.

Floodwaters submerge the second floor of a local factory.

An aerial view of Tongda flooded after the dike was breached.