China's Number of Untimely Deaths Seems More Persistent than the Number
of Medals --Toll from weekend quake in China hits 38 / IHT

International Herald Tribune
Toll from weekend quake in China hits 38

The Associated Press
Monday, September 1, 2008

BEIJING: Rescuers appealed for temporary housing and tents Monday after
a weekend earthquake in southwest China killed at least 38 people,
injured hundreds and left tens of thousands of homes in ruins.

The temblor Saturday in Sichuan Province, which the U.S. Geological
Survey measured at magnitude 5.7, struck along the same fault line as a
May 12 earthquake that killed nearly 70,000.

"This is a mountainous place, and so we can't build temporary houses
everywhere," Zhang Hai, head of the foreign liaison office of the
Communist Party propaganda department in the city of Panzhihua, said as
he issued a call for 10,000 tents. He said the beginning of the school
year, which was supposed to be Monday, was postponed for a week because
the authorities were inspecting damage in classrooms, he said.