A woman mourned over the body of a student at the Middle school, which had collapsed during Monday's earthquake . Experts on earthquake dangers have warned for years that tens of millions of students in thousands of school aroud the wourld face similar risks , yet program to reinforce existing schools or require that new ones be built to extra study standards are inconsistent , slow and inadequately financed.
Parents of dead students gathered at the wreckage of Beichuan middle school, where about 1,300 of the 2,900 students and teachers were killed
May 12, 2008,On the afternoon ,a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit a mountainous region in Western China, killing about 70,000 people and leaving over 18,000 missing. Over 15 million people lived in the affected area, including almost 4 million in the city of Chengdu. Most parents whose children died took a payment of about $8,800 from the local government and a guarantee of a pension in exchange for silence.
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