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Students risk lives crossing river to school
By Li Qian |
July 25, 2012, Wednesday
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STUDENTS in a poverty-stricken village in northwestern Gansu Province are forced to take a risky cableway across a rapid stream as the local government has failed to rebuild a bridge as promised after a former one collapsed during the devastating rain-triggered mudslide in 2010.
Nearly 20 students in Shichuanbei Village in Wenxian County have to tie ropes in their waists and slide to the other side of the Bailong River with the rusty cableway to their school.
During the process, the children are hung in the air without any other protective measures, online pictures showed.
According to the online posts, local villages have raised funds to build a bridge in 2008, but two years later, the torrential rainfall hit the Zhouqu, a county adjoining to Wenxian, and the bridge was submerged and then pulled down.
The Wenxian County government has promised to renovate the broken bridge, but the bridge parts were too badly destroyed to be used again, which forced the government to suspend reconstruction, said the authority in Longnan City, where administers the county.
But the government will take every effort to rebuild a bridge in the proper time, it said.
The 2010 Zhouqu mudslide has claimed 1,435 lives.
Nearly 20 students in Shichuanbei Village in Wenxian County have to tie ropes in their waists and slide to the other side of the Bailong River with the rusty cableway to their school.
During the process, the children are hung in the air without any other protective measures, online pictures showed.
According to the online posts, local villages have raised funds to build a bridge in 2008, but two years later, the torrential rainfall hit the Zhouqu, a county adjoining to Wenxian, and the bridge was submerged and then pulled down.
The Wenxian County government has promised to renovate the broken bridge, but the bridge parts were too badly destroyed to be used again, which forced the government to suspend reconstruction, said the authority in Longnan City, where administers the county.
But the government will take every effort to rebuild a bridge in the proper time, it said.
The 2010 Zhouqu mudslide has claimed 1,435 lives.
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