Society

In epicenter Yingxiu, the woe never dies

By Huang Zhiling (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2011-04-04 15:23

Relatives burn joss paper at the grave of an 11-year-old girl student at a local cemetery in Yingxiu town, the epicenter of the devastating Sichuan earthquake in 2008 that killed at least at least 68,000 people, in Wenchuan county of Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sunday, April 3, 2011, two days before the Tomb Sweeping Day. About 6,000 of the epicenter's 16,000-plus residents were killed in the powerful earthquake. They were buried at the cemetery. [Photo/Huang Zhiling/chinadaily.com.cn]