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发表于 2008-5-13 23:34
China Quake Toll Tops 12,000; Thousands More Buried
China Rushes to Dig Out Buried Quake Victims
By STEPHANIE SY and NICK SCHIFRIN
CHONGQING, China, May 13, 2008
In an instant the ground had shaken and the smooth walls had buckled and now there were only piles of concrete trapping hundreds of schoolchildren. Her husband ran to the rubble, pulling the injured out.
"He saw them buried," she told ABC News in Chongqing. "One was bleeding heavily from the leg."
Her son survived but four of his classmates were killed, part of the deadly toll from China's worst natural disaster in three decades, a three-minute-long, magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck China's most populous province Monday afternoon.
The horrific dimensions of the destruction and loss of life continued to grow as rescuers clawed through demolished towns and cities only to find heartbreak and misery.
The death toll in Sichuan Province alone has topped 12,000, with an additional 18,645 still buried in the rubble of the city of Mianyang, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today.
State TV quoted He Biao, director of the emergency office in the Aba region, saying that soldiers who marched to the town of Yinxiu believe that only 2,300 of the town's 9,000 people survived.
The killer quake arrived when schools and other public buildings were packed, leaving many schoolchildren among those buried in the flattened buildings.
Government rescue workers today finally reached Wenchuan county, the epicenter of the earthquake, only after hiking through rugged terrain. Heavy rain and roads studded with boulders have hampered the search effort.
More than 30,000 troops are deployed by the government in and around the epicenter, which is located in the country's teeming Sichuan province. |
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