More than 6,300 students, teachers and local residents were
evacuated after a landslide struck southwest China's Chongqing
Municipality on Thursday.
No casualties were reported in the landslide, which hit the
Fuling District at Thursday noon.
All the students and teaching staff with the Fuling No. 5 Middle
School were relocated to safety on the day of the natural
disaster.
The school authority sent 4,200 students home on Friday to
guarantee their safety, keeping 2,000 others who were preparing for
the college entrance examination in temporary classrooms in a
building outside the area.
The school will rent more classrooms in the downtown area for
the students if the landslide threat remains, said Huang Liangxin,
deputy president with the school.
(Xinhua News Agency January 5, 2008)
