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Just east of the epicenter, 1,000 students and teachers were killed or missing at a collapsed high school in Beichuan county - a six-story building reduced to a pile of rubble about two yards high, according to Xinhua. Xinhua said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan alone.
At another leveled school in Dujiangyan, 900 students were feared dead. As bodies of teenagers were carried out on doors used as makeshift stretchers, relatives lit incense and candles and also set off fireworks to ward away evil spirits.
I can't keep reading this stuff. I can barely even look at the pictures in thumbnails.
We're still waiting to hear word from my uncle who lives in Chongqing, near the epicenter. We got word from a from a friend of his that he was supposed to be out of town. Death toll nearing 12,000.
life is precious. God, heavens, help us all.
UPDATE: Just heard that my uncle is ok. He was away but his apartment is damaged and he can't return. His girlfriend's family is sleeping in their car like many others.
At another leveled school in Dujiangyan, 900 students were feared dead. As bodies of teenagers were carried out on doors used as makeshift stretchers, relatives lit incense and candles and also set off fireworks to ward away evil spirits.
I can't keep reading this stuff. I can barely even look at the pictures in thumbnails.
We're still waiting to hear word from my uncle who lives in Chongqing, near the epicenter. We got word from a from a friend of his that he was supposed to be out of town. Death toll nearing 12,000.
life is precious. God, heavens, help us all.
UPDATE: Just heard that my uncle is ok. He was away but his apartment is damaged and he can't return. His girlfriend's family is sleeping in their car like many others.