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| Quote: | In the nearby city of Dujiangyan, which was closer to the epicentre, desperate efforts are under way to find survivors underneath the rubble of a three-storey school building which collapsed, burying an estimated 900 students.
It was around 2:30 pm, and the building suddenly began to rock back and forth
Dujiangyan student
Reporters from Xinhua said local residents and rescue workers were pulling people out of the rubble of Juyuan Middle School as anxious parents looked on.
"Some buried teenagers were struggling to break loose from underneath the ruins while others were crying out for help," Xinhua reported.
Gao Shangyuan, a local resident helping with the rescue effort, told Xinhua he had run out of his house when the earthquake had struck and saw some students escape before the building collapsed.
"Some had jumped out of the window and a few others ran down the stairs that did not collapse," he said.
Two girls said they managed to escape because they had "run faster than the others", Xinhua added.
"It was around 2:30 pm, and the building suddenly began to rock back and forth," one of them said. |
from the other piece on the BBC
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