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Survivors Rescued 8 Days After China Quake
Eight days after a massive earthquake struck southwest China, 129 students and 10 teachers were rescued in an isolated small town in Wenchuan County, Chinese state media reported Tuesday. Early reports about the rescue in the town of Yinxing, carried by the official Xinhua news agency, provided few details about the condition of the students or the circumstances of their rescue, except to say that they were ferried to Chengdu, Sichuans provincial capital, aboard eight military helicopters, and taken immediately for medical care. Later reports said that 1,100 troops had been dispatched to the 60-mile-long valley surrounding Yinxing village, and were proceeding from hamlet to hamlet, intensifying search and rescue efforts in an area that appears to have been largely overlooked in the initial emergency response to the earthquake. Posted by: Fred 2008-05-21 |
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