BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- A total of 47,000 tents and 199,000 cotton quilts has arrived at areas hit by Saturday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province as of 9 a.m. on Wednesday, said the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Quake relief materials, including 10,000 items of clothing, 10,000 folding beds, 200 makeshift toilets, 100,000 candles and 900 emergency lamps have also reached the quake-affected zone in Ya'an City, said the ministry.
The quake-hit areas will receive more relief materials which have been dispatched from nine central disaster relief reserves in Hefei, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Chengdu, Nanning, Kunming, Xi'an and Lanzhou, the ministry said.
According to the ministry, the quake has left 193 dead, 25 missing and 12,211 injured as of 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
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The principle of sparing no efforts to save lives cannot be more stressed. No minute or even second should be delayed during the "golden rescue period" in the first 72 hours after the quake.
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When the 7.0-magnitude quake happened, Zhang Shangnian, a pilot from an aviation brigade of Chengdu Military Region, was about to hold his wedding.
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Just likes other medical staff, she was busy with rescuing people injured in the earthquake in SW China, but no one knew her mother just died in the quake.
>>>Wedding ceremony without bridegroom held on schedule
Zhuo Jia, the bridegroom, is a solider of the Chengdu Military Region; he had to leave his beautiful bride behind to participate in earthquake relief.
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>>>Teenager saves mom with his bare hands
The mother moves away a precast slab weighing over 50 kilograms alone to save her son in the earthquake. She said she did not know where her strength came from.
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