we can see how difficult
now road is be better (exception WenChuang)
succor are going to center area with equip
crane and cars still can’t arrive WenChuang
engineer is restore the road which connect Wenchuang for four way
WenChuang is still raining, weather forecast said it will be lessening tonight(or dusk)
Bookmark and prayers for the victims, their friends and family.
Wenchuan: (population of 111,800 - 60,000 unaccounted for)
As a steady rain fell, more than 1,300 soldiers and medics spent the day clambering over landslides and the remnants of a mountain highway before breaking through to Wenchuan, a city of 100,000 and the epicenter of the quake. China Central Television reported that about 60,000 people were unaccounted for across the Wenchuan county.
Dujiangyan: (population of 580,000)
Relief workers used doors wrenched loose from buildings as makeshift gurneys to carry away the bodies of students entombed in a school in Juyuan. All but a handful of the more than 900 upperclassmen were believed trapped under the slabs of concrete, bricks, tile and twisted cables. Only one survivor has been found: a girl pulled free by a rescue team. Her identity has not been released.
Juyuan was a magnet school attracting the region’s top students, from seventh to ninth grade, many of them from isolated communities who boarded in an adjacent dormitory.
Unless more survivors are found, the quake will have wiped out the school’s entire graduating class and about half its student population. Engineers said the school’s walls and support columns gave way almost instantly.
Beichuan: (population of 161,000 - 80% of the buildings destroyed - estimated 7,600+ people dead - 18,000 were believed trapped in rubble)
Just east of the epicenter, in Beichuan county, 1,000 students and teachers were killed or missing at a collapsed high school — a more than six-story building reduced to a pile of rubble, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Another 200 people, mostly children, were buried at two schools in Hanwang township.
Wolong National Nature Reserve:
All 86 pandas were reported safe late Tuesday in the first word since communications with the preserve were cut off. A group of 31 British tourists panda-watching in the preserve also returned safely to Chengdu, the Foreign Ministry said, although there was no word on 12 missing Americans on a World Wildlife Fund tour.
Earthquake in Sichuan China
Thousands of Chinese are buried alive in China due to a 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
Major roads are being block by falling rocks and heavy rains are causing more difficulties.
China is sending paratroopers but landing at such hazard area great risks are involved.
Prime Minister Weng a 66 years old man demand to be at the scene to instruct the rescue and bring hope to the people.
Up to May13th 7am the government has sent one hundred and thirty thousands soldiers and rescued around one thousand eight hundreds people.
At a primary school, students and teachers still trapped.
Reporter: Anyone down there.
Police: yes, and they are calling for help. Around 7 of them.
P: Lil girl, do not talk, save your self, I will get you out.
Girl: I m scared the building will fall.
P Trust me, I will not let the building fall, I will make sure it doesn’t. Did you hear me? Be good.
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As heavy lifting machine can’t be used, it could cause the remains to collapse and hurt the children, local police is digging concrete structure with bare hands to retrieve the buried survivors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ev0EHFPXqo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/13/china.naturaldisasters3
I feel better to see this kind of article: at least some western reporters are there to see what is really happening...
That’ really worst earthquake since 1976. Although, we have fight at North Korea, we have different society system. Facing death, we are all normal person. At that time this is a tragedy which needs our concern.
FORM CHINA SHANGHAI