Around 600 residents of an island in the river are stranded after high water levels prompted the temporary cancellation of a regular ferry route in the southern Chinese city of Qingyuan. Sanitation workers make the most of receding floodwaters to spray mud and silt off the area around the ferry pier. Massive downpours have struck the southern Guangdong province in recent days, triggering deluges that have claimed the lives of four people and forced the evacuation of more than 100,000. IMAGES