| A sister-in-law of Zhang Honghong cries on the debris in Yueyuan Village, Zhouqu County, northwest China's Gansu Province, Aug. 18, 2010. Zhang Honghong, a villager of Yueyuan Village of landslide-hit Zhouqu County, rent a crane on early Wednesday, hoping to find out all the bodies of eight children of his family. Altogether eight children of Zhang Honghong and his two brothers, with the oldest of 17 years old and the youngest six years old, were killed by mudslides that hit the county on Aug. 8. When the mudslides occurred, Zhang Honghong and his brothers, with their wives, were busy working at their corn field on a hill nearby, leaving their children at home, which was later buried by the ruthless mudslides. Though no life signals could be checked by life-detection instrument, the parents kept digging on the debris of their house with shovels and their hands, hoping to find their children, on the following nine days. And they found one body on Tuesday. Another three bodies of the children were found, with the help of the crane, at the noon of Wednesday. The parents wrapped them carefully with quilts. "We will keep digging, until we find all of them. We will bring them back home," the parents said. [Xinhua] |
