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Thousands die in China quake

• 7.8 magnitude earthquake felt as far away as Bangkok
• Many buried in rubble as schools and factories collapse
• Huge rescue and relief effort trying to reach affected areas

Tania Branigan Chongquing and agencies

Rescuers were struggling last night to reach the victims of the devastating earthquake that killed thousands of people in central China and trapped thousands more in the rubble of collapsed schools, factories, hospitals and homes.


Road, rail, air and telephone links to the epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude shock were cut, hampering relief efforts and the flow of information about the scale of the catastrophe.


By last night, at least 8,500 were believed dead in Sichuan province alone, with between 3,000 and 5,000 killed in one county.


Among those known to be trapped are 900 teenagers who were in their threestorey school in Duijiangyan city when the quake struck at 2.28pm in Wenchuan county, 57 miles northwest of the provincial capital, Chengdu. Seven other schools, a hospital and chemical plants in the area also collapsed.


The estimated death toll — across Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan and the huge city of Chongquing — is thought to have made the disaster China’s deadliest since 1976, when hundreds of thousands were killed.


Yesterday’s quake and aftershocks caused panic and mass evacuations in cities across the country, including Beijing — 930 miles away — Shanghai and Wuhan. They were felt as far away as Thailand and Vietnam. In some Chinese cities residents ran screaming in to the streets as the tremors and aftershocks hit.


The premier, Wen Jiabao, flew to the scene while thousands of army troops and paramilitary police headed to the region after President Hu Jintao ordered an “all out” rescue effort. “This is an especially challenging task,” Wen said in a statement. “In the face of the disaster, what’s most important is calmness, confidence, courage and a powerful command.”


The authorities and rescue teams were attempting to make contact with the areas cut off, but forecasts of rain added to the scale of that challenge.


The state broadcaster CCTV issued tips for anyone trapped. It said: “If you’re buried, keep calm and conserve your energy. Seek water and food and wait patiently for rescue.”


In Beichuan county, just east of the epicentre, 80% of buildings collapsed and an estimated 3-5,000 died. Local radio reported that although 4,000 people had been rescued, 15,000 were still trapped. It warned that the rescue effort was short of tents and medical equipment. The airport in Chengdu was closed and flights cancelled while state television reported heavy traffic jams in the city. Calls from anxious residents quickly overloaded the telephone system.


Mobile telecommunication converters had experienced jams and thousands of servers were out of service, according to Sha Yuejia, deputy chief executive officer of China Mobile.


But one Israeli student, Ronen Medzini, sent a text message to the Associated Press reporting: “Traffic jams, no running water, power out, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting.”


Melissa Block, a reporter for America’s National Public Radio, was in Chengdu when the quake struck. “I was in a building, everybody raced outside when we felt it. The building started to shake, there was a huge rumble and everybody ran,” she said.


“There are still many, many people out in the streets, they don’t want to go back into the buildings because there are rumours of aftershocks and possible secondary quakes.”


The state news agency Xinhua reported that buildings collapsed in at least six counties near the epicentre. But details were only beginning to trickle out from mountainous Wenchuan county, which has a population of 100,000. Phone lines to the area were brought down.


A website for the region’s Aba prefecture said the quake had hit several highways and felled communications in 11 counties.


The last big quake to hit China killed 240 people in 2003.


Yesterday in Fuying, 660 miles east of the epicentre in Anhui province, patients were evacuated from a hospital and lay on beds in a parking lot.


In Shanghai, the country’s financial centre, skyscrapers swayed as the tremor hit and office workers rushed out on to the streets. Many more were evacuated from tall buildings in Beijing. “I’ve lived in Taipei and California and I’ve been through quakes before. This is the most I’ve ever felt,” said James McGregor, a business consultant. “The floor was moving beneath me.”


President Bush sent condolences to the families of victims. “The United States stands ready to help in any way possible,” he said. A spokesman for the organising committee for the Beijing Olympics said that buildings for the games had been designed to withstand earthquakes. “The Olympic venues were not affected by the earthquake,” said Sun Weide. “We considered earthquakes when building those venues.”


Professor Greg Houseman of the school of Earth and the Environment at the University of Leeds, said: “It’s a very active area — there’s a lot of deformation going on. You can get very large earthquakes occurring where buildings are well constructed and you might get 50 or 100 people dying. If the buildings are poorly constructed, you can get 10 or 20,000 deaths.”


Houseman, who has researched seismic activity in China, added: “This is a very big earthquake in a place with a history of them, it could have done a lot of damage. From what I’ve seen of modern building techniques I would have thought any building from the last 20 years would be reasonably secure but older ones may be a problem. The time of day also makes a difference. If houses are not very good it’s better if it happens during the day. But then you could have a whole school of kids wiped out.”


The 1976 quake, which hit Tangshan in Hebei, northern China, was between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude and, with the combined impact of a 7.8 aftershock killed between 240,000 and 650,000. But the country’s — and it is believed the world’s — deadliest quake hit Shaanxi province in 1556, leaving about 830,000 dead.

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ated from tall buildings in Beijing. “I’ve lived in Taipei and California and I’ve been through quakes before. This is the most I’ve ever felt,” said James McGregor, a business consultant. “The floor was moving beneath me.”

President Bush sent condolences to the families of victims. “The United States stands ready to help in any way possible,” he said. A spokesman for the organising committee for the Beijing Olympics said that buildings for the games had been designed to withstand earthquakes. “The Olympic venues were not affected by the earthquake,” said Sun Weide. “We considered earthquakes when building those venues.”

Professor Greg Houseman of the school of Earth and the Environment at the University of Leeds, said: “It’s a very active area — there’s a lot of deformation going on. You can get very large earthquakes occurring where buildings are well constructed and you might get 50 or 100 people dying. If the buildings are poorly constructed, you can get 10 or 20,000 deaths.”

Houseman, who has researched seismic activity in China, added: “This is a very big earthquake in a place with a history of them, it could have done a lot of damage. From what I’ve seen of modern building techniques I would have thought any building from the last 20 years would be reasonably secure but older ones may be a problem. The time of day also makes a difference. If houses are not very good it’s better if it happens during the day. But then you could have a whole school of kids wiped out.”

The 1976 quake, which hit Tangshan in Hebei, northern China, was between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude and, with the combined impact of a 7.8 aftershock killed between 240,000 and 650,000. But the country’s — and it is believed the world’s — deadliest quake hit Shaanxi province in 1556, leaving about 830,000 dead.


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Searching the rubble of a Chinese school, parents’ grief turns to fury Amid the rubble, parents’ grief turns to fury

Tania Branigan

Tenderly, she eased the clean fleece over her little boy’s hand and up around his plump shoulder. The steady rain washing the town’s streets had chilled the usually warm Sichuan weather.

He didn’t look alarmed or frightened but dirt and blood were caked on his forehead. She touched his hair and then they pulled up the zipper on the bodybag and carried him away. Only her husband marked her howls. The whole street was seething with misery and anger. She had seen her son, at least; most of the children still lay in the rubble of Xinjian elementary school.


Four hundred and fifty pupils, aged between six and 12, were there when the quake hit yesterday at 2.28pm. A fortunate few were pulled out within hours by anxious parents scrabbling at the wreckage with bare hands. A handful more were saved overnight, after troops arrived to take over the rescue effort. Doctors were unsure how many had been taken to hospital — perhaps 15, perhaps 50.


What was certain was that hundreds more remained trapped and that hope was ebbing by the moment.


“There’s a slight chance they could save a few more now; probably not very many,” said a white-coated doctor.


Even the medics were raw-eyed and anxious. The sobs, wails and shouting mixed with sirens and the steady patter of rain. Under bright umbrellas, parents and relatives stood in whatever they grabbed when the quake hit: dressing gowns, slippers, straw hats. Some bore the bruises and scars of the previous day. Scores of doctors and nurses were waiting to help survivors from the school. But the scale of the challenge — and the collapse of the nearby hospital — meant that resources appeared to be limited. One child was carried to an ambulance by the arms and legs, apparently because there were not enough stretchers.


One man showed his raw, filthy hands. He didn’t want to give his name but said his 12-year-old son, Futian, was still in the wreckage.


“Before the troops came we found more than 10 people. I saved two students and one teacher but I didn’t get my own child out,” he said.


“I’m already 39 and he’s 44,” said his wife. “We had only one child. Why should I live on now?”


Like many parents here, their mood was turning from raw grief to fury as they waited for news. Twenty four hours after the quake they were losing hope, and only rage was left. They blamed everyone: soldiers for coming too late, the builders for cutting corners, officials for — they claimed — siphoning off cash. “The contractors can’t have been qualified. It’s a ‘tofu’ [soft and shoddy] building. Please, help us release this news,” her husband said. “About 450 were inside, in nine classes, and it


collapsed completely from the top to the ground. It didn’t fall over; it was almost like an explosion.”


His neighbour, still half hoping for a sight of her daughter, burst out angrily: “Why isn’t there money to build a good school for our kids? Chinese officials are too corrupt and bad.


“These buildings outside have been here for 20 years and didn’t collapse — the school was only 10 years old. They took the money from investment, so they took the lives of hundreds of kids. They have money for prostitutes and second wives but they don’t have money for our children.


“This is not a natural disaster — this is done by humans.”


Intravenous drips, cigarette butts and scraps of children’s clothes were trodden under foot as families surged forward, trying to force their way through the lines of paramilitary police and troops guarding the site. “They haven’t told us anything. They won’t even let us see the place now,” shouted one mother, trying not to cry.


A man with a red umbrella paused to watch the scene. “My neighbours had two kids here,” he said quietly. “One was on the first floor and ran out but was hit by a falling brick and died. The other one is still in there.” Residents of Dujiangyan know other places were worse hit. Most of the buildings in the town are still standing, but no one dared enter them and many bore long cracks down their sides. The squares and roadsides were packed with residents huddling under tarpaulins, carpets and anything they could find. Too scared to go inside, they stayed out all night.


As the day wore on, an exodus began. People clustered by the roadside to hitch lifts, wait hopefully for buses or simply tramp along the long road to Chengdu to find shelter. Those without umbrellas covered their heads with plastic bags, towels and books in a vain attempt to stay dry. Some held bulging cloth bundles or backpacks; others fled without anything.


Dujianyang was a thriving town until yesterday, and the debris hinted at its previously prospering life. Now, all anyone wanted was to find safety and those they loved.


Not far from Xinjian school, at the Long Tan Wan housing compound, a young couple stared, dazed, at the remains of their apartment block: a pitiless jumble of tin basins, curtains, books, chairs, slabs of concrete and the twisted metal that used to be window frames. Their one-and-a-half year old daughter, Xixi, was somewhere inside. Her father drew the back of his hand across his eyes.


“I tried to get to her myself, but it all started falling down and I couldn’t carry on,” he said. “I called the police, but they wouldn’t come. They said they had bigger disasters.”

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