A government school, an under construction hydropower project and many electricity poles were washed away in the floods.

A fellow prisoner said Yu had been tied to an electricity pole and left out in the hot sun for several days.

Many villages and towns here look like ancient Babylon with electricity poles.

"There are no less than five or six electricity poles damaged every day by tanks," he said.

Cross the stile near an electricity pole and continue to the main road.

It is the tree to the left, which is actually an electricity pole with a little metal plaque.

In fact, 400 wooden electricity poles were knocked down.

On October 6, close to 50 civilians had been found hanging on electricity poles.

The second blast was near an electricity pole and caused a short circuit which is thought to have led to the fire.

Then I saw an electricity pole started crashing down in front of me.