China IDs 19,065 killed by May quake
A Chinese official said today that 19,065 of the people who died in May’s massive earthquake in Sichuan province have been identified.
Li Jiang from the Sichuan provincial propaganda office said that an official translation at a news conference incorrectly stated that 19,065 schoolchildren had died. The government still has not given a figure for students killed.
The earthquake left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing. Thousands of shoddily built schools collapsed.
Parents of the victims staged protests to demand investigations. Many say they have been subjected to intimidation and financial inducements to silence them.
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