Baby boy's first cries bring hope to Yushu

YUSHU, Qinghai - A baby boy was born in a temporary tent in the chilly weather after the fatal quake that has left some 1,144 dead in Northwest China's Qinghai province.

The cry of a baby pierced the air at 4:28 pm Wednesday from a tent in the hardest-hit Gyegu town near the epicenter, the seat of the government of Yushu county, in southern Qinghai Province.

"It must be the first life that came into the world after the disaster," said a doctor named Huang Changmei.