LUSHAN, April 27 (Xinhua) -- When horns and sirens began to wail Saturday morning, Gao Yongqiong had hallucinations again and heard her little daughter's voice.
"She said 'Hug me, mum'," said the distraught Gao.
The words and voice have resounded in her head ever since the girl, Wang Yanxia, was killed in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that shook their hometown in Lushan County of Ya'an, a city in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on April 20.
Wang was knocked down by a falling wall and died three weeks before her fifth birthday.
She was born on May 13, 2008, the day after the devastating Wenchuan earthquake that jolted the same province. Her birth was a blessing for her quake-hit family and prompted rescuers and fellow villagers at the time to keep going.
"She was destined to be born and die at times of earthquakes," said her father, Wang Hongwu.
Now the girl rests in peace on a hill near her home in Liming village of Luyang township.
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