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Beijing, Jul 31 (PTI) Hundreds of Chinese soldiers along with public retrieved over 4,000 barrels of explosive chemicals swept away by floods, even as fears mounted that some of the barrels filled with flammable liquid may have sunk down a major river in northeast China's Jilin Province.
The soldiers, who were joined by public yesterday, retrieved about 4,260 of the 7,000 chemical barrels that were swept into the Songhua river in Jilin province.

But the unrecovered barrels are now flowing faster down the river as the Fengman Dam, located on the upper reaches of the Songhua River, opened its floodgates yesterday afternoon to discharge flood waters.

Some 3,000 chemical-filled barrels and 4,000 empty barrels were swept into the Songhua River Wednesday morning after floods hit the warehouses of two chemical companies in Jilin City.

Each chemical-filled barrel contains 160 kilograms of chemicals.

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