LONGTOUSHAN: Rescuers searched in the rubble of a quake-struck Chinese village, with relatives facing the stark probability that only the remains of their loved ones could be found.
Two days after a magnitude 6.1 tremor devastated the once-idyllic mountainside village of Longtoushan in southwest China’s Yunnan province, at least 398 people have been confirmed dead, with 80,000 houses destroyed and 124,000 seriously damaged.
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