2008年5月14日 星期三

Sichuan 7.8 earthquake, Aihongbianye.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said earlier today, the southwest provinces of the actual situation more serious than the original forecast of many.



Xinhua News Agency reported that a former official statistics for the number of deaths more than 8,700 people, of whom 8,533 were identified in Sichuan Province have died.

Densely populated areas in Sichuan Province yesterday around 14:30, a sudden strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8. Xinhua News Agency reported that China since 1976 Tangshan earthquake, the deadliest disaster of an earthquake. Tangshan located in the vicinity of Beijing, caused by the earthquake that killed 242,000 people.

Xinhua News Agency, pointed out that as the rescuers have not yet arrived at the center of the quake Wenchuan cities, the death toll is expected to be substantially increased. Xinhua News Agency said rescuers in Wenchuan 100 km from the city of Dujiangyan in a school, found 60 bodies of students were buried alive, than the original reports of 50 more, making the death toll sharply increased.

Local disaster is the deadliest earthquake one of the regions. Is expected to have hundreds of people buried in the rubble pile.

Xinhua News Agency reported that another of the Dujiangyan the township school buildings all down, all 420 students reportedly less than 100 people survived the collapse of the buildings on the steel and blood everywhere.

Xinhua News Agency said that the current earthquake relief headquarters received a report of the number of deaths: the northwest Gansu Province 48 people were killed and 50 people in Chongqing, 85 in Shaanxi Province, Yunnan one.

These provinces are close to Sichuan Province. Sichuan earthquake has resulted in Wenchuan County, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan, Shanxi, Guizhou and Hubei provinces and cities a total of eight people were killed 9219.

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