Monday, July 24, 2006
Cover-up claims as China storm toll leaps past 500
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(Peter Harmsen - Mail & Guardian) from China.
Chinese authorities were warned against cover-ups on Saturday after the death toll from Tropical Storm Bilis more than doubled overnight. A week after Bilis made landfall, the official number of people killed in gales and floods was given at 518, nearly 300 more than the 228 previously reported, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
"Officials who try to hide the death toll will be punished," the agency said, citing the government of Hunan, the central province that bore the brunt of the destruction brought about by Bilis.
Hunan on Friday revised the province's number of fatalities dramatically upwards to 346, compared with 92 previously, with some evidence the difference was partly to be blamed on cover-ups.
Pingshi town, one of the...
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Bloubergstrand, Cape TownPosted by SilverJade Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Peter Harmsen - Mail & Guardian) from China.
Chinese authorities were warned against cover-ups on Saturday after the death toll from Tropical Storm Bilis more than doubled overnight. A week after Bilis made landfall, the official number of people killed in gales and floods was given at 518, nearly 300 more than the 228 previously reported, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
"Officials who try to hide the death toll will be punished," the agency said, citing the government of Hunan, the central province that bore the brunt of the destruction brought about by Bilis.
Hunan on Friday revised the province's number of fatalities dramatically upwards to 346, compared with 92 previously, with some evidence the difference was partly to be blamed on cover-ups.
Pingshi town, one of the...
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