Earthquake toll up but survivors defy odds
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April 20, 2010, Tuesday
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Rescuers continued to find survivors buried in debris yesterday even as the death toll climbed to 2,039 on the sixth day since a devastating earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province, leaving another 195 still missing.
The magnitude-7.1 quake, which struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu last Wednesday, left 12,135 injured, 1,434 of them in a serious condition, a spokesman for the rescue headquarters told a press conference.
Two Tibetan women and a small girl were pulled out alive from rubble yesterday.
About 11am, the Sichuan Mining Rescue Team helped out 68-year-old Urgyan Tsomo and 4-year-old Tsering Belkyi, who had been buried for more than 123 hours.
Their family had managed to pass water and rice to the pair who were trapped under their collapsed house, protected by a bed.
Another survivor was an unidentified Tibetan woman, who was rescued 130 hours after the quake occurred.
Power facilities in Yushu County had mostly been repaired, with supplies back to normal, Gu Junyuan, a spokesman for the State Electricity Regulatory Commission, told a press conference.
Ninety-five percent of repair work of Yushu's main power grid had been completed, said Wang Huaiming, general manager of the Qinghai Electric Power Corporation.
Ten teams of 600 technicians had been working 24/7 to restore power supplies after the quake devastated the prefecture's grid, Wang said.
All 45 villages in Yushu had contact with the outside world restored yesterday after telecommunications resumed in the county seat last week, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Either fixed-line or mobile phone links were available in 42 villages, while people had access to satellite communications in the remaining three villages, said Vice Minister Miao Wei.
Up to 111 of the 185 mobile base stations in Yushu had been unavailable as a result of disruptions to equipment, power and fuel supplies,.
The Ministry of Commerce has sent 3,000 stoves and mobile shops to Yushu.
The stoves would arrive in Xining, the provincial capital, today before reaching Yushu, the ministry said.
The mobile shops are expected in Xining tomorrow.
The magnitude-7.1 quake, which struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu last Wednesday, left 12,135 injured, 1,434 of them in a serious condition, a spokesman for the rescue headquarters told a press conference.
Two Tibetan women and a small girl were pulled out alive from rubble yesterday.
About 11am, the Sichuan Mining Rescue Team helped out 68-year-old Urgyan Tsomo and 4-year-old Tsering Belkyi, who had been buried for more than 123 hours.
Their family had managed to pass water and rice to the pair who were trapped under their collapsed house, protected by a bed.
Another survivor was an unidentified Tibetan woman, who was rescued 130 hours after the quake occurred.
Power facilities in Yushu County had mostly been repaired, with supplies back to normal, Gu Junyuan, a spokesman for the State Electricity Regulatory Commission, told a press conference.
Ninety-five percent of repair work of Yushu's main power grid had been completed, said Wang Huaiming, general manager of the Qinghai Electric Power Corporation.
Ten teams of 600 technicians had been working 24/7 to restore power supplies after the quake devastated the prefecture's grid, Wang said.
All 45 villages in Yushu had contact with the outside world restored yesterday after telecommunications resumed in the county seat last week, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Either fixed-line or mobile phone links were available in 42 villages, while people had access to satellite communications in the remaining three villages, said Vice Minister Miao Wei.
Up to 111 of the 185 mobile base stations in Yushu had been unavailable as a result of disruptions to equipment, power and fuel supplies,.
The Ministry of Commerce has sent 3,000 stoves and mobile shops to Yushu.
The stoves would arrive in Xining, the provincial capital, today before reaching Yushu, the ministry said.
The mobile shops are expected in Xining tomorrow.
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