Edwin Austin Abbey paintings

Edwin Austin Abbey paintings
Edward Hopper paintings
Villagers using spades and their bare hands desperately tried to rescue children and teachers from the rubble of the school in Wazai county, many of whom suffered horrific burns. One villager helped rescuers dig out 30 to 40 bodies. "They were all dead, not one was alive. They suffered terribly. Some of the bodies had their heads blown off," Ding Haigen, a builder who lives opposite the school, said.The official Xinhua news agency said 41 people died and 27 were injured in the explosion, but Mr Ding put the death toll at over 60. A doctor at Tanbu township hospital, who arrived at the scene within minutes, said a class of third grade pupils, aged between eight and nine, had been putting fuses into firecrackers at the time of the blast.