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Flood victims' families to get US$18,200 each
By Wang Zhenghua and Li Fangchao (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-06-14 01:02
SHALAN, Ning'an: The families of school children killed by last Friday's
devastating flood in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province are to receive
150,000 yuan (US$18,200) compensation, a local government spokesman announced
last night.
Local residents
receive blankets in a flooded village in Ning'an county,
northeast Heilongjiang Province, June 14, 2005.
[newsphoto] | Latest figures suggest
that at least 95 students and four other villagers were killed in the disaster.
According to spokesman Wang Tongtang, 10 students are still missing, and the
death toll could rise further as previously unreported deaths are recorded.
Xue Lingguo, whose eight-year-old daughter was killed, said the official head
count didn't include his daughter because the couple buried her on their own.
He estimated at least 10 more children killed in the flood had not yet been
included in the official count.
Meanwhile, the search for the missing continued yesterday.
More than 4,500 military personnel from nearby counties, helped by sniffer
dogs, joined the effort.
Power was restored yesterday but clean water remained cut off. The rescue
team headquarters dispensed bottled water to residents.
Also yesterday, there were conflicting reports about the two people initially
held responsible for the tragedy.
Huang Mingjun and Li Zuoyu, respectively the Party secretary of Shalan and
the chief of its police station, were released from custody yesterday, according
to a local official in charge of search co-ordination.
But Jing Dianyuan, executive vice-mayor of Mudanjiang, told China Daily an
investigation was still going on and that the two, who were accused of
negligence, remain in custody.
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