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possibility of further hailstorms and more tornadoes complicated rescue efforts.
In badly hit Xintu village, survivors grieved over lost relatives and surveyed the damage wrought on their homes.
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came and took the bodies out, I can't bear it."
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Tents and other emergency supplies were being sent from Beijing, while schools and other facilities were used to shelter survivors, CCTV
said.
The network showed people carrying the injured to hospitals, cars and trucks lying upside down Mike Glennon Bears Jersey , street light poles snapped in half, and steel electricity pylons crumpled and lying on their side. Power and telephone
communications were knocked out over a broad area.
"I heard the gales and ran upstairs to shut the windows," Xinhua quoted Xie Litian, 62 Eddie Goldman Bears Jersey , as saying. "I had hardly reached the top of the stairs when I heard a boom and saw the entire wall with the windows on it torn
away."
The roof then collapsed as he raced downstairs, Xie said. After sheltering in a corner for 20 minutes, he emerged to find the neighborhood
transformed into a wasteland. "It was like the end of the world," he said.
Jiangsu is a coastal province north of Shanghai. Yancheng is an ancient city with more than 8 million people.
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