NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE
Twenty-year-old Luo Yonglong, a resident of Wuxing Village, Longmen Township, still feels regretful as he failed to rescue a mother and son.
Though he suffered many injuries to his head, arms and legs in the quake, Luo refused treatment himself. Instead he organized 10 villagers to participate in rescue work in his village.
Wuxing has a population of about 5,000 people. As most young villagers had migrated to work away from the village, only elderly residents and children, ill-equipped physically for the post-quake relief, have been left behind.
"As soon as I heard that a mother and her baby were trapped in a toppled two-story building, we rushed to the site to save them only to find that the first floor of the building had been leveled, leaving the second floor standing on the ground," Luo said.
He asked a neighboring excavator to help and then he dug the debris with his bare hands along with other villagers so as to avoid hurting the buried mother and son.
At 3 p.m. on Saturday, they retrieved their bodies.
"Nothing is more important than life. It is human instinct. I believe everyone would do like this," Luo said.
Teenager saves mom with his bare hands
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