Aftershocks, supply deficiency hamper rescue efforts
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Quake survivors in Lushan County are in urgent need of water, food and tents. Xinhua reporters witnessed that residents were waiting for relief goods along the roads linking remote mountain towns in Lushan. Children held up cardboard describing their distress. "500 people, no food, no water, no tents," read a paperboard.
"I had no food for a whole day," said a resident in the Wangjia Village of Longmen Township in Lushan.
The villager was queuing for mineral water dished out by Chen Guangbiao, a high-profile Chinese philanthropist.
Chen said he distributed 1,000 quilts and 1,000 kg of bread while promising to raise 2.3 million yuan (372,337 U.S. dollars) for the quake-stricken region.
But, many of the villagers still gathered at the road near the gate of the village, waiting for the arrival of the rescue teams, as all their food had been buried in the debris.
The county partially regained access to water supply after a water plant resumed production at 1 p.m.. About 100,000 residents in Lushan could get water for emergency use, local authorities said.
In the Zhongli Township, 20 km north of the Ya'an City proper, local villagers have set up make-shift tents with any possible materials at hand.
In Baoxing, many local residents spent the night outdoors, in short of food, water and clothing, as there were not enough tents for every family and people were afraid of returning to their ramshackle homes to get supplies amid constant aftershocks.
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