World 900 schoolchildren buried by powerful quake in China

[The Helper]

BEIJING — A powerful earthquake buried 900 students in central China today and killed at least 107 people, as several schools and a water tower collapsed in the tremor, state media reported.

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central China, but sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.

Four children died when two elementary schools in Chongqing municipality collapsed, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

One person was killed when the quake toppled a water tower in neighboring Sichuan province where the earthquake was centered, Xinhua said.

Nearly 900 students buried in China after powerful quake: state media | Taiwan News | 2008-05-12 00:00:00

Nearly 900 students buried in China after powerful quake: state media | 2008-05-12 00:00:00

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[C-Death]

Whats really screwed up is I had a dream last night (about 3 hours ago here) about the great wall crumbling down. Dam! That's Wack!

 

[tom_mai78101]

Either that, or you watched a lot of Chinese films.

 

[TheDamien]

Incomplete statistics put total casualties into the 8000's. For comparison, around 3000 people died in the September 11 attacks.

Whats really screwed up is I had a dream last night

Dreams are pretty common; don't let it get to you.

 

[sjakie]

Whats really screwed up is I had a dream last night (about 3 hours ago here) about the great wall crumbling down. Dam! That's Wack!

Its not the great wall that got buried, so I think it was just a regular dream and you had to much cheese that night.

Anyway, I feel sorry for those kids. Being buried alive is a horrible death.

 

[Lord Kass]

Condolence to the people there. It sucks to be buried alive which is a slow and painful death.

 

[Cornface]

Saw this on the swedish news few minutes ago, but they said it was estimated about 9000 casualties, and could be more, for help hadn't reached the outer villages.

 

[Asehujiko]

They sent a giant total of 8000 soldiers as rescue workers. That's less then the ammount of security officers they have arround some of their olympic stadiums... Some seriously fucked up priorities there.

 

[w/e]

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They should send as many people as they can in order to help those buried if there is any hope of rescue. Who gives a shit about Olympic stadiums when there are 900 kids slowly dying underground?

 

[C-Death]

Its not the great wall that got buried, so I think it was just a regular dream and you had to much cheese that night.

Anyway, I feel sorry for those kids. Being buried alive is a horrible death.

It's not the dream it's self that is odd. It's the symbolism

Crumbling>Earthquake
Great wall>China