School in Session in China Tent City

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Mon, 05/26/2008 - 8:53am

Two weeks after a huge earthquake rocked southwestern China, claiming more than 65,000 lives, another powerful aftershock hit the region Sunday, toppling tens of thousands of homes.

Millions of people in southwestern China are homeless, so the government has set up tent cities. In Beichuan county, school was in session in one tent.

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