Water levels in the area were "at heights not previously known" and the town looked like it was "sitting in the middle of an ocean," a senior official says of hard-hit Burketown town.
The launch came hours before South Korea and the United States were set to kick off their largest joint exercises in five years amid nuclear-armed Pyongyang warning such drills could be seen as a "declaration of war".
Xi Jinping, 69, thanks the thousands of delegates at Beijing's Great Hall of the People for giving him a third five-year term at the helm of the world's most populous nation.
Making his public debut in a media conference, the close ally of President Xi Jinping said China will take measures to boost jobs and urged officials at all levels to "make friends" with entrepreneurs.
At least four security personnel and three attackers were killed in the hours-long clash after militants stormed the compound, which houses the office of the city police chief.
Australia announced it would buy up to five US nuclear-powered submarines, then build a new model with US and British technology to bulk up in the face of a rising China.
Clashes erupted outside Imran Khan's house in Lahore after police from Islamabad arrived to arrest him on charges of threatening a judge in one of his speeches last year.
