Fears Of New Quake Prompt Panic In Chinese Town
Tens of thousands of panicked residents rushed into the streets of Chengdu in southwest China early on Tuesday, alarmed by a television report that predicted another powerful earthquake would hit the region. The pandemonium triggered by the TV report, as China observed three days of mourning for the nearly 34,000 killed in the May 12 earthquake, showed how people's nerves have been stretched to breaking point by the disaster, and aftershocks.