Woman tells of escape, bodies on road
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April 15, 2010, Thursday
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TEZIN Drolma felt the floor rocking when she was about to leave her home in northwest China for work yesterday.
"My first instinct told me it was an earthquake," Drolma said in Gyegu Town near the epicenter.
The quake rattled things on the table, and Drolma dashed back to the bedroom and carried her 2-year-old son, who was sleeping, out of the house.
"I did not even put any clothes on him," she said.
Drolma felt two tremors, the first about 5:40am and the stronger one about 7:40am.
Her family of five fled the two-story house.
"I don't know what happened to the house as I have not returned home yet," she said last night. "Most of the earth and wood structured houses toppled."
Drolma still in shock, said: "I saw bodies on the road."
Another resident, Lungme and five members of her family were buried under the rubble of her home.
"It was all so sudden. I had no time to react," she said.
She and four family members were dug out by her neighbors, Lungme said, "but my mother died."
"Eight people in one of my neighbor's family were all buried.
"They were all dead when they were found," she said.
A student at the Yushu Vocational School, where at least one third of the school buildings collapsed, said: "I know there were several students in the teaching building. Several bodies were found in the ruins, but the casualties are not known yet."
"My first instinct told me it was an earthquake," Drolma said in Gyegu Town near the epicenter.
The quake rattled things on the table, and Drolma dashed back to the bedroom and carried her 2-year-old son, who was sleeping, out of the house.
"I did not even put any clothes on him," she said.
Drolma felt two tremors, the first about 5:40am and the stronger one about 7:40am.
Her family of five fled the two-story house.
"I don't know what happened to the house as I have not returned home yet," she said last night. "Most of the earth and wood structured houses toppled."
Drolma still in shock, said: "I saw bodies on the road."
Another resident, Lungme and five members of her family were buried under the rubble of her home.
"It was all so sudden. I had no time to react," she said.
She and four family members were dug out by her neighbors, Lungme said, "but my mother died."
"Eight people in one of my neighbor's family were all buried.
"They were all dead when they were found," she said.
A student at the Yushu Vocational School, where at least one third of the school buildings collapsed, said: "I know there were several students in the teaching building. Several bodies were found in the ruins, but the casualties are not known yet."
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