Scenes of devastation in China's schools

ANCHOR: And now we have footage from the Chinese communist party's state television about the ongoing rescue efforts to pull children and staff from collapsed schools.
STORY: Rescuers in Dujiangyan, pulled bodies from Xinjian Primary School. In this school alone, over 300 students and teachers were buried underground.
China's state television said that rescue operations could take a long time.
In the same city, about 900 teenagers were buried under a collapsed
three-storey school building. At a second school in Dujiangyan, fewer than 100
of 420 students survived, Xinhua news agency reported.
Chinese state television showed rescue operations in Dujiangyan where
some students were pulled out of the rubble.
But the school tragedy is not ending. In Hanwang county, rescue workers
were pulling bodies out of another destroyed school. Over 200 students were
buried.
Dujiangyan, which is about midway between Chengdu and the epicentre,
had scenes of devastation, with buildings reduced to rubble and bodies in the
streets, some only partially covered.
Heavy rainfall and wrecked roads hampered efforts to reach areas
hardest-hit by China's worst earthquake in three decades.

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