Chinese military doctors found and treated five students from the Republic of Korea in Wenchuan, the epicenter of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Sichuan Province on Friday.

The students are waiting to be helicoptered to the provincial capital of Chengdu, according to the doctors from the Third Military Medical University.

Kim So Ra and Kim Dong Hee from Seoul, Son Hye Kyang and Ahn Hyang Jun from Pusan, Beek Jun Ho from Taego are students with the Tianjin Foreign Studies University, who came to Sichuan for a tour.

"One of them has a broken finger, while the other are slightly bruised," said Wu Jun, vice director of the Southwest Hospital of the Chongqing-based Third Military Medical University (TMMU).

They were driving to Wolong natural protection areas in Wenchuan to see giant panda when the earthquake struck. A rolling boulder hit their car, and the driver was killed. The students were slightly-bruised and ran to a village two or three kilometers away. The local residents received them with hospitality, according to Beek Jun Ho.

They set off on foot for Yingxiu Town in Wenchuan on Thursday morning and arrived at noon, where the TMMU doctors found and treated them.

(Xinhua News Agency May 17, 2008)