Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake
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Militiamen search for a missing
helicopter in the Zhaogong Mountain near Dujiangyan City, southwest
China's Sichuan Province, June 2, 2008. A military transport helicopter
engaging in quake relief work near Yingxiu Town was missing on May 31.
There were altogether 19 people on board the helicopter, including five
crew members and 14 injured local residents. (Xinhua Photo) Photo
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Soldiers scramble to search for downed
helicopter
DUJIANGYAN, Sichuan Province, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese
soldiers were still scaling mountains and hacking their way through brambles and
thorns in a desperate attempt to search for a downed military transport
helicopter on Tuesday.
President Hu Jintao, also General Secretary of the
Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military
Commission, instructed the rescuing team to continue sparing no efforts to
search for the helicopter after debriefing a searching report on late Monday.
As of 10 p.m. Tuesday, the helicopter was still
missing and no one onboard has been found. Full story
Helicopter crashes while on duty in
quake zones
CHENGDU, June 1 (Xinhua) -- A military transport
helicopter engaging in quake relief work near the Yingxiu Township, Wenchuan
County in Southwest China's Sichuan Province crashed on Saturday afternoon,
according to military sources. Full Story