China Quake Collapses Second School with 1,000 Students
hinese state media is reporting that another 1,000 students and teachers are dead or missing after a massive earthquake crushed a high school.
The official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that the school collapsed in Beichuan county, just east of the epicenter of Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake.
The toll is in addition to another collapsed school were 900 students are feared dead.
Xinhua said the school in Beichuan, a six- or seven-story building, had been reduced to a pile of rubble about two yards high.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM
By WILLIAM FOREMAN Associated Press Writer
CHENGDU, China
hinese state media is reporting that another 1,000 students and teachers are dead or missing after a massive earthquake crushed a high school.
