Zhouqu County, China – There were homes here once but Yueyuan village is now a sweeping mud plain. Residents dig through the sludge where they think their bedroom once was.
Maybe there is still a loved one under there. Maybe he or she is still alive, though hopes of finding survivors in China’s massive mudslides are fast dimming. The death toll Wednesday soared to 1,117, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Anxiety, grief and the stench of death overwhelmed Zhouku County in China’s northwestern Gansu province, where torrential rains triggered the mudslides Sunday. Emergency teams have rescued 1,243 people but 627 people are missing, Xinhua said.
The side of a mountain broke off in the night and tore through remote Zhouqu, burying homes and ripping others apart. The path of the mudslide is covered in three and four stories of rock and mud.
(Source: CNN)
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It’s amazing how there are two stories in a row, in each of which more than 1000 people were wiped away by a “natural disaster”, and not a single comment appeared on either story. These stories should shake us up a lot more that most other stories that attract all types of silly comments.