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Comment (CHENGDU, CHINA -- With the death toll still rising from the Sichuan earthquake, China disclosed that at least four million apartments and homes had been damaged or destroyed in the massive quake, leaving almost five million people homeless.
Strong aftershocks were continuing to rattle the disaster zone yesterday, knocking out phone lines and triggering landslides that blocked roads and buried a number of vehicles on a road leading to the epicentre.
The biggest aftershock yesterday had a 5.5 magnitude, causing buildings to sway in the city of Chengdu, about 80 kilometres from the quake-damaged region.
About 10 survivors, including a young child and a 23-year-old nurse, were rescued alive yesterday after four days in the rubble. Rescue workers could hear weak cries from a few other people in the wreckage. But hope was fading for most of those who were still trapped in the collapsed buildings.
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