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...Shungang, 36, was relatively lucky. There were few deaths in his neighborhood of Mianyang city. He is now camped out with his family in a parking lot near a museum dedicated to the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, who lived in the area. A family sits outside a tent nearby, the grandmother's eyes and legs badly bruised from when a house collapsed on her. Conditions in the camp are decent, Jia says, but he wonders how long he will stay. "We don't know how long we'll be here," he says, as a worker walks through with...
...everyone in the disaster zone is ready to accuse the local officials of corruption, but they are still demanding answers. "It's a question we are asking," says Feng Jianyun, 34, who was sitting outside the Jiuzhou Sports Center in Mianyang, which has been turned into a center for thousands of people left homeless by the quake. "How could a place with so many people inside not be built better? That's what I want to know. We should not forget a lesson that has been learned in blood." with reporting by Lin Yang/Dujiangyan
...teams, to save those who could be saved, to provide food and shelter to those who lost everything, and to keep the peace. Chinese media on May 14 estimated that there were 25,000 people trapped in collapsed structures in the quake zone, including more than 18,000 in Mianyang, a city of 5 million. In Dujiangyan (pop. 600,000), where row after row of apartment buildings were reduced to heaps and corpses lay on the sidewalks, rescue operations resembled an invasion. Military vehicles ranging from heavy trucks to jeeps, ambulances and mobile kitchens were everywhere. So were People...
...died in a magnitude 7.5 temblor in the northeast city of Tangshan, has jolted the country into a frenzied race against time and death. Chinese state-run media estimated that there are 25,000 people trapped in collapsed structures in the quake zone, including 18,645 people in Mianyang, a city of more than 5 million. President Hu Jintao called for an all-out response. About 100,000 relief workers, including soldiers, police and medical teams, are working in the affected areas, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said on state television...
Chinese media have given blanket coverage to the earthquake, which has killed at least 12,000. According to the official Xinhua news agency, Chinese rescue workers report another 18,645 people remain buried under debris in Mianyang city, near the quake's epicenter. State TV channels are providing almost hourly updates of the number of fatalities along with sometimes gruesome video of rescue operations, including scenes of grieving parents hovering near bloody corpses of children trapped or killed when schools collapsed...