Angry parents block Chinese road

Friday, June 13, 2008

BEICHUAN COUNTY, China -- Hundreds of grieving parents blocked the road into a flattened town Thursday as police sought to quell a rising wave of public anger over schools that collapsed in an earthquake a month ago and killed thousands of children.

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