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Thousands dead' in Chinese quake |
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"Between 3,000 and 5,000 people may have been killed by an earthquake measuring 7.8 in just one county of south-western China's Sichuan province, reports say."
Some 10,000 people are also feared to have been injured in Beichuan county.
Desperate efforts are under way to find survivors. One school that collapsed has buried an estimated 900 students.
President Hu Jintao has urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims of the quake, which hit 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital.
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whizkidd
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Thats sad. That too just before the Olympics! 
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Bonovox
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It is sad and it makes me think how lucky we really are where we live we never get disasters on that scale. Same thing happened years ago in earthquakes in Italy and Greece where a school came crashing down on pupils. This happens just after what happened in Burma. Sad. |
ronkx
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its about 9000 dead already |
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Keiki
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Thats a massive victims
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crossmatched
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what a depressing news.. reminds me of the '91 killer quake in manila..
hope the bereaved families find comfort in the thought that their departed loved ones are in a better place now..
lets just offer prayers to all those who are affected of the calamity.
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KingBooker5
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Think about it this way. In China, you are only aloud one kid per family, for the children trapped and who died in schools, that is the parents only child. |
ronkx
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On 2008-05-13 16:04:26, crossmatched wrote:
what a depressing news.. reminds me of the '91 killer quake in manila..
hope the bereaved families find comfort in the thought that their departed loved ones are in a better place now..
lets just offer prayers to all those who are affected of the calamity.
my father told me what happened in 91, im still in my mothers womb that time.
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yeah thats kinda sad, its about 3000 teenagers in that school thats trapped, and they say they are fearing more than 20,000 are killed |
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Posted: 2008-05-12 15:12
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