YOUXIAN, China (Reuters) - China has evacuated over 197,000 people from an area that risks flooding by landslide- blocked rivers near the epicenter of this month’s earthquake in Sichuan province, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

Shouting “evacuate! evacuate!”, police with loudspeakers fanned through Youxian on the outskirts of Mianyang city, which was devastated by the May 12 quake.

The town was almost deserted, with shops shuttered and apartment buildings silent, as officials searched for stragglers in makeshift tarpaulin shelters erected by refugees on the banks of the Fu River.

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