Rescue workers in Dujiangyan, China's southwestern Sichuan province continued a frantic rescue operation on Wednesday (May 14), to save more children trapped in the rubble of one of the schools, demolished by a powerful earthquake. Sichuan television broadcast dramatic footage of young children trapped under blocks of cement and other building material. Rescue workers could be seen comforting the children, and working on ensuring their safety with helmets and by placing bricks to secure their surroundings. China's state television said the rescue workers were trying their best but that rescue operations would take a long time. In the same city, about 900 teenagers were buried under a collapsed three-storey school building. At another school in Dujiangyan, fewer than 100 of 420 students survived, Xinhua news agency reported. Hospitals in the province had victims and patients pouring in as more survivors were found under rubble. Two days after the...
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