Soldiers try to build a makeshift levee with woods after a levee was broken following the continuous punch of rainstorms in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province May 23. More than 100 people were mobilized to repair the levee with a 14-meter-long breach.

Soldiers ferry bags of cement to repair the broken levee.

Soldiers shoulder sand bags to repair the broken levee.

Soldiers shoulder a slab of stone.

(Xinhua News Agency May 25, 2007)