Posted on 05/12/2008 8:47:42 AM PDT by charles m
A rescuer searches for victims after an earthquake in Chongqing municipality May 12, 2008.
Water and mud flow on a street after an earthquake broke an underground pipe in Chengdu, Sichuan province
CHONGQING, China - Chinese state media says more than 8,500 have died in Sichuan province alone from a massive earthquake.
The official Xinhua News Agency said that another 10,000 people were believed hurt in one of the province's counties after the 7.8-magnitude quake on Monday.
Nearly 900 students were trapped after their school collapsed about 60 miles from the quake's epicenter. Xinhua reported students also were buried under five other toppled schools.
The earthquake struck in the middle of the afternoon when classrooms and office towers were full.
The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.
Thank you.
Prayers for your family, be safe!
Prayers for all the families, this is horrible.
There seems to be a lot of disrupters on FreeRepublic lately, I would assume that any poster who is reveling in the pain that the Chinese are experiencing is one of the disrupters. If you see any posts like that, you should report it to the moderator. It makes us all look like fools, and there are plenty of people in the MSM who monitor the FreeRepublic threads, I know because one of them called me about my posts.
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