Aftershocks, supply deficiency hamper rescue efforts
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday urged the country's railway and transportation departments to make every effort to facilitate the entry of tents, quilts and other materials into the quake-hit area.
With resumed traffic and eased traffic jams on more roads, relief supplies are reaching an increasing number of the needy survivors.
About 12,700 tents, 34,100 quilts and 12,700 camp beds, as well as 12,700 tonnes of food and drinking water, have arrived at the quake-hit zone as of 2 p.m., said Zhong Mian, vice governor of Sichuan.
Local government has relocated 171,000 people whose houses were toppled or damaged in the quakes, Zhong said.
The survivors are also helping themselves. In one of the relocation sites in Lushan's Baosheng Township, over 100 people are handing each other dishes, sharing the food they cooked with meat and vegetables they risked their lives to fetch from their damaged houses.
"My food is also theirs," one of them told Xinhua.
As of Sunday afternoon, water had been drained off from five reservoirs in Lushan, which suffered cracks and leakage and had posed a threat to people living in the lower reaches, to ensure the local residents' safety, according to a Lushan County government statement.
The quake-stricken area is expected to receive rainfall in the following three days, according to the Sichuan Provincial Meteorological Observatory.
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