Teachers dig by hand to pull students from ruins of school

BEIJING - Teachers at a primary school in Yushu had to dig with their bare hands through concrete ruins to rescue their students trapped below.

Sixty-one students at Yushu No 3 primary school had been saved as of Wednesday night, but 34 died before being found, the Youth Times reported on Thursday.

"The other 27 students gathered on the campus playground, but the wounded kids couldn't get immediate treatment. We just don't have such medical supplies here," said school principal Nyima Gyaltsen, adding that more students might still be buried in the ruins.