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50,000 people feared dead
Published May. 15, 2008
Can you even imagine something like this happening in America? The September 11 attacks were the closest we have come to a national tragedy and disaster, with about 3000 people losing their lives as a result. Katrina took about 1,850 lives. But 50,000 people??? 50,000. I can't even fathom that many people dead. How will China rebuild? How do you think America would handle something like this?
LUOSHUI TOWN, China - The death toll from China's massive earthquake could reach more than 50,000, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, quoting rescue headquarters.
Already some 20,000 are confirmed dead as a result of Monday's 7.9 magnitude quake, but tens of thousands more remain buried in rubble in areas of the worst-hit province of Sichuan that rescuers are only just beginning to reach.
China earlier issued a rare public appeal for rescue equipment as the government struggled to cope with the quake as rescue workers broke through key roads to the epicenter in the race to find survivors.
More than 72 hours after the quake rattled central China, rescuers appeared to shift from poring through downed buildings for survivors to the grim duty of searching for bodies — with 10 million directly affected by Monday’s temblor.
In Luoshui town — on the road to an industrial zone in Shifang city where two chemical plants collapsed, burying hundreds of people — troops used a mechanical shovel to dig a pit on a hilltop to bury the dead. Two bodies wrapped in white sheets lie near the pit.
Bodies laid on sidewalk
Police and militia in Dujiangyan pulverized rubble with cranes and backhoes while crews used shovels to pick around larger pieces of debris. On one sidestreet, about a dozen bodies were laid on a sidewalk, while incense sticks placed in a pile of sand sent smoke into the air as a tribute and to dull the stench of death.
The bodies were later lifted onto a flatbed truck, joining some half-dozen corpses. Ambulances sped past, sirens wailing, filled with survivors. Workers asked those left homeless to sign up for temporary housing, although it was unclear where they would live.
Some key roads to other towns in the worst affected areas were cleared Thursday, and rescue workers were able to begin moving heavy equipment in for the first time. Previously, soldiers riding to isolated mountain villages on helicopters and small boats had been forced to dig for survivors with their hands....
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LESSON #2: Don't live in a city that lays beneath sea level in a hurricane zone......DUHHHHHHHH!!!
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1) China attempted to kill our domestic animals with tainted food.
2)China attempted to and partially successful in killing us with tainted medications in which poisonous fillers were used instead of the appropriate materials.
3)China attempted to kill us with faulty tires.
4)China attempted to kill us with tainted toothpaste.
5)China consistently attempts to poison our children with lead infested toys.
6)And don't get me started with the MSGs
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