Word: dujiangyan
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...greatest impact on the lives of hundreds of millions. There's sure to be backlash over the number of children killed by the quake, buried in their classrooms as shoddily built schools collapsed around them. In one structure alone - the three-story Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan - at least 600 students died. "It was built out of tofu," says Hu Yuefu, 44, of the building that toppled and killed his 15-year-old daughter. He holds local government officials and building contractors responsible. "I hope there is an investigation," Hu says. "Otherwise, there are a thousand parents who would beat...
...quake, buried in their classrooms as shoddily built schools collapsed around them. In the days following the quake, blogs and online message boards teemed with demands for answers as to why so many schools were destroyed. In one structure alone--the three-story Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan--at least 600 students died. "It was built out of tofu," says Hu Yuefu, 44, of the building that collapsed and killed his 15-year-old daughter Huishans. He holds local government officials and building contractors responsible. "I hope there is an investigation," Hu says. "Otherwise, there are a thousand parents...
...center of Yingxiu, Wu Jiang, 30, pokes with a stick at the remains of the apartment block where his family lived. He was near Chengdu when the quake hit and was uninjured. But his mother, who was napping at home, did not survive. He has twice walked in from Dujiangyan, a distance of nearly 22 miles (35 km), to visit his home. He was in town when Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spoke to the survivors and rescue workers last week, but he didn't have the heart to attend. "I don't know what the future will be like here...
...expected to climb as high as 50,000, there is special tragedy - and perhaps a whiff of scandal - in the number of young people who died in collapsed schools. Communities like Juyuan have had an entire generation of young people wiped out. In the nearby city of Dujiangyan, more than 300 students were killed when the Xinjian Elementary School collapsed. Sixty miles away in the mountainside town of Hanwang, the scene repeated itself at the Dongqi Middle School, where an estimated 200 students died. Five children were killed when two schools even collapsed in Chongqing, the state-run Xinhua News...
While authorities were able to respond quickly to Dujiangyan, damage to roads kept rescuers out of some towns in the mountains for days. Soldiers finally reached the epicenter of Wenchuan county Wednesday. The initial reports from Wenchuan county were that the damage was severe. In the town of Yingxiu, only 2,300 out of a population of 10,000 survived, the state-run Xinhua said. Helicopters that had been prevented from flying to the area because of heavy rains were finally able to deliver supplies. Premier Wen Jiabao, who flew in with the troops, told residents, "The central government...