China’s Misery Grows
May 14, 2008
It wasn’t until they reached Yingxiu that it became clear how nightmarish it was.
Chinese rescue workers arrived on foot for the first time since Monday afternoon’s earthquake at the town where 10,000 people used to live.
Today, they discovered, it has a population of only 2,300. Everyone else is dead.
Across central China today military helicopters began dropping food and aid workers started to reach the hardest-hit villages, areas that had been isolated because roads had been wiped away in the three-minute-long, magnitude 7.9 earthquake.
(Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)
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The more villages are reached, the scale of devastation escalates for China’s worst natural disaster in more than 30 years.
Entry Filed under: Disasters. Tags: China Earthquake.
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fil-am stories | May 14, 2008 at 6:56 pm
hollaaa vaklah dalaw lang ako me migraine huhuhu