After three people were buried in the bare hands, he received the bad news of his father and sister's death | Luding "9 · 5" earthquake

Cover Journalist Zhong Xiaolu

At 12:52 on September 5th, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake sources occurred in Luding of Sichuan 16 kilometers. After the earthquake, the Town of Musician in the earthquake became an "lonely island" that urgently needed rescue. At around 14 o'clock on the 5th, the 240 special police officers from the special police detachment arrived at the epicenter to start rescue work. It was the first rescue force to reach the epicenter. The special police officer Qin Xiaoqiang was one of them.

The 26 -year -old Qin Xiaoqiang is a native of Wandong Village, Luding County. For 13 consecutive hours of fighting with his comrades, he risked the danger of aftershocks and falling rocks, and rescued three trapped people with bare hands.

In the early morning of September 6, Qin Xiaoqiang, who was building a tent at the resettlement point, learned that his father and sister who had been unable to contact him had been killed in the earthquake. He lay on his comrades' shoulders and cried.

After learning about the situation, the leaders of the Ganzi Prefecture Public Security Bureau and the special police detachment immediately arranged for Qin Xiaoqiang to return home to cook after cooking.

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