The death toll rose to 106 as of 2:00 PM Friday from last
Friday's devastating floods and mountain torrents in Shalan Town,
northeast China's Heilongjiang
Province.
The victims included 102 pupils from the Shalan Central Primary
School and four local villagers. Three people are still missing
More than 2,600 soldiers were mobilized for the rescue
operation, and the life of 26 pupils was spared while the bodies of
six drowned were spotted during the past week.
A truckload of medicine and medical apparatuses and instruments
worth 500,000 yuan (about US$60,000), a sum raised by the
provincial health department, were sent to the disaster-hit areas
on Friday.
The medicine and medical devices were donated by the provincial
disease prevention and control center and major hospitals to
alleviate the medical materials shortage in Shalan Town.
The Mudanjiang city committee and the stationed armymen and
officers donated 100,000 yuan (about US$12,000) and 100,000 yuan
worth of materials and goods to the flood affected township.
The surviving pupils resumed classes on Monday in the nearby
middle school and the local flood control and disaster relief
headquarters said the reconstruction of the demolished primary
school will begin next Monday.??
(Xinhua News Agency June 18, 2005)