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Hundreds of people were trapped under two collapsed chemical plants in a town called Shifang, where tons of leaked liquid ammonia caused the evacuation of 6,000 people, Xinhua reported.
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In Luoshui town — on the road to an industrial zone in Shifang city where two chemical plants collapsed, burying hundreds of people — troops used a mechanical shovel to dig a pit on a hilltop to bury the dead.
Archive 2008-05-11 papabear 2008
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Seven days after the quake, Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the biggest city nearby, Shifang, and assistance to towns like Hongbai appeared to speed up, residents say.
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James T. Areddy/WSJ Dozens of people are staying in each of these big tents set up along Six Meter Avenue in Shifang.
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James T. Areddy/Wall Street Journal Workers at this scrap metal yard near the city of Shifang said they salvaged these desks from Luoshui Middle School, where all but five of more than 400 students died or remain missing after the Sichuan earthquake.
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In Shifang as well, areporter from Chongqing recordedhow a girl got her life saved by a teacher.
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In Luocheng village, near Shifang city, more than nine tenths of the buildings collapsed and 68 of 2,980 residents died.
All Shook Up 2008
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Hundreds of parents also held a rally on Tuesday in Shifang to protest government attempts to give them compensation in return for silence, according to a report from Radio Free Asia, a nonprofit news agency that receives financing from the United States government.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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In the school in Shifang where she worked, she ran time after time into the 3-story teaching building to save the best she could.
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Hundreds of parents also held a rally on Tuesday in Shifang to protest government attempts to give them compensation in return for silence, according to a report from Radio Free Asia, a nonprofit news agency that receives financing from the United States government.
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