Rescuers searched for earthquake victims amid the debris of a hospital in Dujiangyan on Monday night.

On Tuesday morning, Wang Guofei and his younger brother drove to look for their mother in the rugged southwestern county of Beichuan, where at least 5,000 people have died as a result of Monday’s earthquake. But the road had been washed out by a landslide, and Mr. Wang said he would return the next day and search for his mother on foot.

“She has potatoes,” he said. “She can live for a while.”
Edward Wong (’98) together with Jake Hooker report for The New York Times.

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