China Facing Unprecedented Floods, Army Blasts Dam To Divert Water China’s central Henan province is facing the heaviest rainfall in 1,000 years. Outlook Web Bureau 22 July 2021, Last Updated at 8:22 am Photo by AP/PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-07-22T08:17:04+05:30 China Facing Unprecedented Floods, Army Blasts Dam To Divert Water outlookindia.com 2021-07-22T08:22:44+05:30 Also read China's military has blasted a damaged dam to divert the surging waters of a flooded river. A total of 1.24 million (12.4 lakh) people were affected and 1,60,000 evacuated, state-run Global Times reported. The Army sent its troops early on Tuesday morning to a damaged dike in Yichuan county to explode it to divert the floodwater, state-run China Daily reported.