8 buried Chinese still missing
January 16, 2010, Saturday
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EIGHT Chinese buried in the Haiti earthquake remained missing while a Chinese rescue team was searching through debris for survivors, an official said yesterday.
There was still no sign of the eight Chinese missing in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince after the devastating magnitude 7 quake, despite rescuers' use of life detecting equipment, said Wu Heping, spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security.
Wu said the eight Chinese had been meeting with staff in the UN headquarters when the building collapsed.
Four of the officers had just arrived in the Haitian capital on Tuesday afternoon, sent by the Ministry of Public Security for peacekeeping consultations.
They were Zhu Xiaoping, 48, director of the ministry's equipment and finance department; Guo Baoshan, 60, deputy director of the international cooperation department; and Wang Shulin, 58, and Li Xiaoming, 35, both researchers.
The other four were officers with China's peacekeeping force in Haiti.
They were Zhao Huayu, 38; Li Qin, 47; Zhong Jianqin, 35; and He Zhihong, 35. All are men except for He.
The 18 people working for Chinese companies and enterprises in Haiti are all safe and sound.
The first Chinese rescue team of 60 experts and three sniffing dogs arrived at Port-au-Prince's badly damaged airport early Thursday morning with 10 tons of food, equipment and medicine.
The Chinese rescuers rushed to the collapsed roof of the UN Stabilization Mission building, scouring the rubble amid the stench of the dead.
"The rescue work started at 9am local time but it has run into many bottlenecks," said Hung Jianfa, leader of the Chinese rescue team.
"We can hardly manage to deploy the heavy rescue equipment to the rescue scene, as a great number of homeless people are stranded on streets," Huang said.
Yan Song, a rescuer at the site of the UN building, said that they were approaching the floor where the eight Chinese officers were trapped.
"They were likely trapped on the fourth floor. We've reached the fifth floor," he said.
A female Chinese peacekeeper named Wang Xueyan from Anhui Province told her family through a phone call that she had saved five people from the rubble with her bare hands, reported Anhui Shi Chang Bao newspaper.
Wang, the mother of a 15-year old, sounded exhausted on the phone, family members told the newspaper.
Knowing that she was safe was a relief for them, though the call only lasted less than one minute; Wang told them there are more people to save.
(Shanghai Daily/Xinhua)
There was still no sign of the eight Chinese missing in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince after the devastating magnitude 7 quake, despite rescuers' use of life detecting equipment, said Wu Heping, spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security.
Wu said the eight Chinese had been meeting with staff in the UN headquarters when the building collapsed.
Four of the officers had just arrived in the Haitian capital on Tuesday afternoon, sent by the Ministry of Public Security for peacekeeping consultations.
They were Zhu Xiaoping, 48, director of the ministry's equipment and finance department; Guo Baoshan, 60, deputy director of the international cooperation department; and Wang Shulin, 58, and Li Xiaoming, 35, both researchers.
The other four were officers with China's peacekeeping force in Haiti.
They were Zhao Huayu, 38; Li Qin, 47; Zhong Jianqin, 35; and He Zhihong, 35. All are men except for He.
The 18 people working for Chinese companies and enterprises in Haiti are all safe and sound.
The first Chinese rescue team of 60 experts and three sniffing dogs arrived at Port-au-Prince's badly damaged airport early Thursday morning with 10 tons of food, equipment and medicine.
The Chinese rescuers rushed to the collapsed roof of the UN Stabilization Mission building, scouring the rubble amid the stench of the dead.
"The rescue work started at 9am local time but it has run into many bottlenecks," said Hung Jianfa, leader of the Chinese rescue team.
"We can hardly manage to deploy the heavy rescue equipment to the rescue scene, as a great number of homeless people are stranded on streets," Huang said.
Yan Song, a rescuer at the site of the UN building, said that they were approaching the floor where the eight Chinese officers were trapped.
"They were likely trapped on the fourth floor. We've reached the fifth floor," he said.
A female Chinese peacekeeper named Wang Xueyan from Anhui Province told her family through a phone call that she had saved five people from the rubble with her bare hands, reported Anhui Shi Chang Bao newspaper.
Wang, the mother of a 15-year old, sounded exhausted on the phone, family members told the newspaper.
Knowing that she was safe was a relief for them, though the call only lasted less than one minute; Wang told them there are more people to save.
(Shanghai Daily/Xinhua)
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