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May 15, 2008
Deepest sympathy for the victims of earthquake in China
A powerful earthquake with magnitude 7.9 struck Sichuan province in south-west China, on 12 May, 2008. Our hearts ache to hear sequent natural disasters first in Myanmar and then in China.
According to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)’s report on 12 May, Xinhua News indicate that the death toll is now at 12,000 with an additional 26,206 people injured and 9,400 people buried in debris.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KKAA-7EM42T?OpenDocument
The news reports us that there have been many aftershocks since the quake. We hope that affected people are rescued as soon as possible.
We, jicafriends and JSRPD send our deepest sympathy for the victims of the earthquake and wish for the safety of our former participants in China and their friends, families and peers.
Secretariat of jicafriends
Posted by jicafriends at May 15, 2008 02:53 PM
Comments
Thank you very much for your sympathy to me and my compatriots. I am very fine, but my compatriots in Sichuan had been suffered from the huge earthquake(8.0 level), many people died and many people had been injured. Thank for the kindness of Japanese friends just like you who give great sympathy and help to China. Alao thank for the help of Japanese goverment. Pls help me tell other JICA friends that I am fine, and also thank for their sympathy and help.
Bingquan san from Beijing
May 19, 2008
Posted by: Bingquan san at May 21, 2008 10:53 AM
Thanks God our friends are found safe in devastated earthquake in China and myanmar. Deepest sympathy for victims of cyclon and hoping all the best and early recovery of all that.
Arshad from Pakistan
JICA friend 1995
Posted by: Muhammad Arshad at June 25, 2008 04:16 AM