99% houses damaged by quake in township(2)

A grey-haired resident looks at a damaged house in Taiping township, Lushan county, Southwest China's Sichuan province on April 24. Ninety-nine percent of the houses in Taiping township were damaged in the magnitude-7 earthquake which hit Sichuan on Saturday morning, leaving so far 196 dead and 21 missing. [Photo by Wei Xiaohao/Asianewsphoto]