Singapore rescue team searches survivors in quake-hit town

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Singapore rescue team searches survivors in quake-hit town

Members of a rescue team from Singapore search for survivors in the quake-hit Hongbai Town of Shifang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 17, 2008. The team of 55 members from Singapore started their rescue mission in the serious devastated Hongbai Town on Saturday.

German tourist found well in remote village after quake
WENCHUAN, Sichuan Province, May 17 (Xinhua) -- A German tourist missing for five days has told Xinhua how villagers in an isolated community cared for him for five days after the southwest China earthquake.

Brakus Bogdan, 62, was initially reported to have been pulled alive from quake debris, but he had in fact been safe and well, staying in Taoguan village, near the epicenter of the quake in Wenchuan County.
Bogdan was located early on Thursday, but soldiers from the People's Liberation Army were only able to evacuate him from the village on Saturday, 114 hours after the quake.
"I am totally fine. Nothing is wrong with me," the climber with the Munich-based Hauser Travel Agency told Xinhua by phone.
He was traveling with translator Xu Jianming and driver Gao Wei in a four-wheeled drive vehicle across a bridge when the quake happened.

People live in temporary tents in quake-hit areas
Quake survivors cook on a square in the quake-hit Deyang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 14, 2008. Life still goes on though people in Sichuan suffered serious losts in the 7.8-magnitude quake centered on Wenchuan county on May 12.

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