The devastating earthquake that struck Sichuan province in southwest China on Saturday hit close to home for Liao Wenjun.
Pausing from his rice bowl during lunch break at a military hospital in Shengli, a village near the epicentre, the 30-year-old doctor recalled the traumatic event that claimed the lives of almost 200 people and injured another 12,000. “Some of my relatives were buried in the rubble, and we still haven’t pulled them out,” he said.
Gesturing at the main street where houses lie like dropped matchsticks, he added without showing much emotion: “Our house is just down there.”
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