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Article: Feature: Quake orphans face uncertain future (1)
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 24, 2008
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Feature: Quake orphans face uncertain future (1)
By Rong Jiaojiao
BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhua) -- She held hands of her mum and dad on
the way to kindergarten, with no idea that she would soon lose her
parents to the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Beichuan County in
China's southwest Sichuan Province on May 12.
Shielded by the bodies of her parents, three-year-old Song Xinyi
survived the catastrophe that claimed more than 50,000 lives and
left 5 million homeless.
In hospital, one of her legs was amputated. Lying at Mianyang No.
3 Hospital, the little girl screams "I want Dad and Mum" every time