国内英语资讯:China Focus: Quake rescue demonstrates Chinas strength_时事

国内英语资讯:China Focus: Quake rescue demonstrates Chinas strength

They discovered two dead tourists on two passenger buses on the way, he said.

The disaster relief headquarters said some 60,000 people, mostly tourists, had been evacuated as of 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Local authorities are planning to set up temporary shelters to relocate affected residents.

HELPING HANDS

Jiuzhaigou is part of the Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, home to many Tibetans and people from other ethnic minority groups.

Hu Yunpeng, a tourist from Nanchong City of Sichuan, recalled that he was on a tourist bus with his family when the quake occurred. A huge rock hit the back door of the bus.

"At the moment I heard the bang, I thought our bus had exploded," he said. His wife was thrown out of the window and a child on the bus was killed on the spot.

He saw that a car in front of them was overturned and four people in it were killed.

Despite a bone fracture in his right leg, he climbed out of the bus and dragged his wife to the roadside, while rocks continued to fall from the mountains.

Six local Tibetan villagers, holding shovels and iron bars, rushed to the bus. They helped the tourists move to open ground near a hostel.

"Besides passengers on our bus, there were over 200 people staying in front of the hostel door," he recalled. "The Tibetan hostel owner asked us to use his firewood for warmth and took out some quilts for us."