BEJING , China — As villagers and suburban dwellers descended on the Chinese city of Chengdu to flee the death and destruction of a devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake that flattened schools and homes, relief workers reported that such basic necessities as water bottles and blankets are going fast.
Aftershocks Continue in China as Local Jews Distribute Water and Blankets
BEJING , China — As villagers and suburban dwellers descended on the Chinese city of Chengdu to flee the death and destruction of a devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake that flattened schools and homes, relief workers reported that such basic necessities as water bottles and blankets are going fast.
Resident Danny Yaakobi – who, with the help of Chabad-Lubavitch of Hong Kong, is organizing donations of clothes, money, food and other items – said that tent cities have popped up all over Chengdu’s streets. With aftershocks a constant worry, high-rise dwellers are afraid to return to their apartments.
“People are scared,” stated Yaakobi, an Israeli who has lived in Chengdu for more than six years. “They’re sleeping in tents, in their cars or under the sky.
”Our apartment is on the seventh floor,“ he added. ”And we really felt the quake. My wife kept saying, ‘It’s not stopping.’ I tried to calm her down, and we waited for it to end, but we couldn’t move. We were scared that if we moved, the building would collapse. So until yesterday night, we lived in our car.”
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How many jewish people live in China?