"As I waited for help, I realized that a few students beside me were also crushed in the reinforced concrete. I talked to them, and two girls died while they were talking to me. It broke my heart to see the living lives of my students pass away like that."
--Yushu State Vocational and Technical School teacher Li Shuai
April 16, the third day of the earthquake, the streets of Jiegu Town, Yushu County, Qinghai Province, the reporter saw countless sad faces, countless resolute faces, as well as rescuers and the people in the disaster area are still full of hope in the face. In contact with the people in the disaster area, the reporter was moved and shocked again and again.
Rescuers and local people work together to save buried people. Long Chengtong photographed
The face of sadness
The teacher was crushed under the concrete slab
Watched students around him die
Yesterday morning at 11:20, Yushu State Vocational and Technical School girls dormitory next to the rubble of the school's 24-year-old history teacher Li Shuai with a sad face to the reporter to show a pink cell phone, the back of the phone is attached to a big head of a girl's sticker, the back of the cell phone. The girl on the sticker is smiling and holding a child. Li Shuai behind the ruins, a large excavator docked in the rubble, dozens of officers and soldiers are collapsing in the reinforced concrete carefully searching for the buried body, including the cell phone sticker on the smiling girl.
"This cell phone is we found from the rubble, the cell phone on the big head sticker is too small, it is difficult to identify who is, only to see the girl melon face, skin is quite white. We later found from the cell phone stored text messages, call records and some friends' birthdays, we are currently initially projected that the girl is the health class more seek Zhuo Ma or Ang Wen Yongzang." Mr. Li Shuai told reporters that.
The Xining girl who graduated from Jinan University two years ago and came to work in Yushu recalled the moment of the earthquake to reporters, with tears hanging on her face: "I was lying in bed in the dormitory and was about to get up, when I suddenly felt that the whole building shook violently, and then I realized that my feet were being pressed by the concrete slabs and I couldn't move. I quickly took out my cell phone and dialed my colleagues to come to my rescue. While I was waiting for help, I realized that several students around me were also crushed in the reinforced concrete. I then chatted with them, and two of the girls died while they were chatting with me. Watching the living lives of my students pass away like this, I was heartbroken."
Li Shuai was later rescued by a colleague and suffered only minor trauma to her legs. She came to the ruins of the girls' dormitory for three consecutive days, looking for students and hoping for a new miracle. (Wen Yuanzhu)
A little girl reads a book outside her tent.
The faces of fellow students
As survivors, we didn't think much about it, we just wanted to do something to take care of the aftermath of our killed classmates.
Yesterday morning at about 10:30, in front of the ruins of the Yushu State Vocational and Technical School, 07 science class of 19-year-old boy Dawa Caizha and his two classmates Zuo Xi Dongtu, Bianba Zuoxi is busy, to help rescue.
Dawa Tsechak told reporters that after the earthquake, the school evacuated them home. But I heard that many of my classmates were buried, and the school needed a lot of help. He and his six classmates took a one-and-a-half-hour bus ride back to the school yesterday afternoon. They stayed up all night in order to set up tents for those who stayed behind and to take care of the aftermath of those who were killed. "We didn't think much about it, we just wanted to do our part. When the earthquake hit, all of us boys had already gotten up and lined up in the water room to get water, and the damage to the dormitory wasn't serious, only a few students were injured when they jumped off the building. But in our dormitory behind a few meters away from the girls dormitory almost all collapsed, the victims of the people in our class a female student Qingmei Batso. As a survivor, it is right to do more for the school." (Wen Yuanzhu)
Armed police soldiers cook for people in the disaster area. Xinhua News Agency
Smiling face
When the reporter left, the granny gripped the reporter's hand forcefully, and a trace of grateful smile unexpectedly appeared on her face in such a difficult situation.
Yesterday at 6 p.m., in a civil affairs tent in the playground of Yushu State Vocational and Technical School, Grandma Ajiang, who is in her 60s, sat on her crutches at the door of the tent with a melancholic look, while her husband was lying on the bed in the tent, unable to move. Through her granddaughter to help translate, the reporter learned that the house of the grandmother's family all collapsed, her back was bent, her husband's right arm was seriously fractured, and his back was also injured. Her son died in the quake, and her daughter, whose legs were crushed and her eyes severely injured, has been airlifted out of town for treatment.
The grandmother does not speak Chinese, but when the reporter left, she held the reporter's hand hard, and in such a difficult situation, her face even showed a trace of gratitude smile, so that the reporter's mind for the shock. (Wen Yuanzhu)
Electricity in the disaster area has not been restored. The diesel engine is used to generate electricity for the charging of cell phones. Ni Lixiang photo
Mother's face
Deyang A-ma with less fluent Chinese to not familiar with the reporter recounted his son's life, from the naughty to the big after the understanding of the whole speak for half an hour.
Yesterday morning, the 40-year-old Tibetan woman in the town of Jiegu Xinjian Road in front of the ruins of their own two-story building on the side of the University of Electricity, when the reporter asked whether her family has loved ones casualties, the sun ama hugged her side of the loved ones for a long time lost their voices and cried. The sister told reporters, in the early morning of the 14th in the sudden earthquake, the 23-year-old son of the mother was buried in the reinforced concrete, four hours later rescuers found him, but there is no heartbeat.
Deyang A-ma with not too fluent Chinese to not familiar with the reporter recounted his son's life, from the naughty childhood to the big after the understanding of the whole speak for half an hour. The reporter sat under the fierce sun listening to Deyang A-ma's story, y felt her strong motherly love, and hoped that she could get some solace from the confidences. (Wen Yuanzhu)
Disaster area compatriots of the motorcycle face of the random sit
Reporters in the Jiegu town interview found that almost all of the local Tibetan compatriots are full of gratitude to the rescuers, whether it is the rescuers or the media reporter. All the noodles and motorcycles on the streets of Jiegu Town, as long as there is a vacant seat, Tibetan compatriots will stop and warmly greet people who stop by the roadside. The reporter hitched a ride with four Tibetan compatriots in the process of looking for a school. (Yang Ming)
The face of perseverance
At this time, a steady stream of domestic volunteers came to Yushu, and as a Yushuite, it was even more of a responsibility. I came back and organized a local volunteer team and was responsible for receiving the volunteers who came from abroad.
Yesterday morning at 2:00 am, the reporter from the earthquake site dragged the tired body to the Jiegu town stadium centralized settlement. At that time, the wind was blowing and the temperature was below -1℃. The open-air stadium under a starry sky with dozens of tents, are black lights. Just when the reporter was worried about which tent to make do for a night, a Tibetan young man appeared in front of the reporter, who introduced himself as Gass, a local volunteer in Yushu Prefecture, and a staff member of the Yushu Prefecture State Taxation Bureau. He took over the reporter's hand luggage, the reporter will lead to a tent has been sleeping five or six people, in a corner for the reporter to spread the sleeping bag, but also took out a bottle of mineral water.
Gas slept in a tent with a reporter, who told him that his house collapsed in the earthquake, but his family suffered only minor injuries. He rushed back to Yushu overnight after relocating his family to Xining that afternoon. He said: "At this time, a steady stream of domestic volunteers came to Yushu, and as a Yushuite, I was duty-bound to help. When I came back, I organized a local volunteer team and was responsible for receiving volunteers from abroad." At 6 or 7 a.m., the people in the reporter's tent were awakened by a thud, followed by a shaking of the ground. Everyone was shocked and scared, and Garth calmly told everyone, "It's just an aftershock, we don't need to be afraid, it'll be fine in a few minutes." (Wen Yuanzhu)