Counting The Floating Dead Of The Yellow River

From WorldCrunch: The Yellow River has no lid, why don’t you jump in...!? For Chinese who live along the river, this old expression is used when an argument heats up. But in the last few days, with reports by the Oriental Morning Post that hundreds of corpses are floating in the famous river, it all has taken on a different meaning.

According to the Chinese daily, over the past 50 years the 80 kilometers of the Yellow River upstream of Lanzhou, in the northwest rural Gansu Province, has seen more than 10,000 floating dead. "Between April and September this year, there were on average at least 20 corpses being salvaged each month."  Read more:

http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/counting-the-floating-dead-of-the-yellow-river/lanzhou-suicide-river-pollution-china/c3s9829/#.UH1aQW_WIuc