Shanghai, August 19, 2020, SPA -- Floods on the upper reaches of China's Yangtze River forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people on Tuesday and threatened a 1,200-year-old world heritage site. Staff, police and volunteers used sandbags to try to protect a UNESCO World Heritage site in southwestern Sichuan province, according to Reuters. Sichuan, through which the Yangtze River flows, raised its emergency response to the maximum level on Tuesday to cope with a new round of torrential rainfall. The Yangtze Water Resources Commission, the government body that oversees the river, declared a red alert late on Tuesday, saying water at some monitoring stations was expected to exceed "guaranteed" flood protection levels by over 5 metres. --SPA 14:19 LOCAL TIME 11:19 GMT 0011 www.spa.gov.sa/w1394133