Schools In China's Quake Trap Thousands Of Students

The earthquake disaster in China may well be remembered by the massive amount of young students lost when their schools tumbled down trapping them into the earth.

Juyuan Middle School has beneath its former walls at least 900 students. At this time 60 bodies have been pulled from the rumble. The school comprised of eighth an ninth graders was in the middle of classes when the 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Monday afternoon. Located in Mianyang city, about 160 kilometres northeast of the epicentre. As the rain poured down on rescue workers bodies have been quietly been placed under a tarp. Parents wait in shock for word on a miracle taking place and their child being uncovered alive. At least one family has had that miracle answered as a teenage girl was pulled out of the rumble alive Tuesday morning. Some of the few survivors of the school were about to escape by running out of the building before it fell down.

"You tell us to wait, we can't wait anymore. We must have some information," a woman pleaded with soldiers Tuesday at the edge of the school in this hard-hit town. The troops were lined two deep, keeping the emotional family members away from the building.

"Give us information, tell us what's happening," the crowd shouted at the soldiers, surging forward every now and then before being pushed back.

The families of students at Juyuan Middle School are not the only ones praying for miracles. Several schools in China went down as the quake ravished the nation. In Mianyang city another school collapsed leaving at least 1,000 students and teachers entombed. That area though has been inaccessible for rescue workers. Workers are trying to find the students in these schools with pickaxes, shovels and electric saws. As the families wait in makeshift tents in a pouring rain specialized earthquake rescue units try to find miracles in the rubble. Let's send out prayers that those miracles appear.