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Chinese embalmer on way to Haiti

By Song Wei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-01-16 14:43
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A senior embalmer from Hangzhou, capital city of East China’s Zhejiang province, left Friday for Haiti,the Qianjiang Evening News reported.

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Kangfei Xu, who has worked as an embalmer for Hangzhou Funeral House for more than 30 years, will help Haitians preserve the bodies of earthquake victim and make them suitable for viewing at their funerals.

Xu is one of China’s few high-level professionals in embalming, according to the chief director of Hangzhou Funeral House Qi Luo.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti Tuesday, and the devastating quake has claimed as many as 200,000 lives, the authorities in the Caribbean country said on Friday.
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