{"id":4387,"date":"2008-05-16T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T09:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2008-05-16T17:07:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T09:07:44","slug":"deaths_estimated_over_50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/deaths_estimated_over_50000.php","title":{"rendered":"Death estimate over 50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/2008\/05\/16\/thebeijingnews.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/2008\/05\/16\/thebeijingnews.php','popup','width=446,height=631,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/2008\/05\/16\/thebeijingnews-thumb-160x226.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"226\" alt=\"thebeijingnews.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionStyle\" style=\"width: 160px;\"><em>The Beijing News<\/em><br \/>May 16, 2008<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The top headline of today&#8217;s <em>The Beijing News<\/em> announces a revised death toll estimate from the rescue headquarters of the State Council: possibly up to 50,000 dead. Meanwhile, some sources says that 19,509 people had been confirmed dead in Sichuan Province by 4 PM yesterday. This is the fourth earthquake supplement issue of <em>The Beijing News<\/em> and it includes new details and shocking photos from the front lines.<\/p>\n<p>The front page picture shows PLA soldiers and paramedics transporting survivors. The caption reads &#8220;Racing Against Death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other front page headlines:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CNN President Jim Walton has apologized for commentator Jack Cafferty&#8217;s insulting remarks on China.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 According to a spokesman of the Beijing Seismological Bureau, there will be no destructive earthquakes in Beijing in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A farm truck loaded with 42 people fell into a river while attempting to cross a bridge in Guiding, Guizhou Province. 29 people were killed and 13 injured in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>In other papers, the <i>Mirror<\/i> answers a pressing question regarding Beijing&#8217;s legions of Sichuanese establishments: will they be affected by the earthquake? The answer: restaurants are now sourcing raw materials from Chongqing instead of Chengdu, so you don&#8217;t have to worry that your supply of kung-pao chicken will be interrupted (<a href=\"http:\/\/fzwb.ynet.com\/article.jsp?oid=40498550\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top headline of today&#8217;s The Beijing News (\u65b0\u4eac\u62a5) announces that Deaths estimated over 50,000 in Sichuan<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/deaths_estimated_over_50000.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[543,23],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-of-the-day","tag-earthquakes","tag-the-beijing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}