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Teacher admits leaving pupils behind as he fled earthquake

June 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

“I ran towards the stairs so fast that I stumbled and fell as I went. When I reached the center of the football pitch, I found I was the first to escape. None of my pupils was with me,” wrote the man now known across China as ‘Runner Fan’.

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China's Grieving Parents

June 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A series of portraits captured the grief of parents of some of the children who died in the May 12 earthquake that collapsed their school, the Fuxin No. 2 Primary School in Mianzhu.

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Troops draining lake created by China earthquake

June 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

YINGXIU, China: Fears of a devastating flood from a lake formed by the Sichuan earthquake eased on Sunday after hundreds of soldiers and engineers successfully completed a channel for draining away the rising water.

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