After 105 hours of cutoff, electric power was partly restored in Wenchuan, epicenter of Monday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan Province. [Watch video]
Tap water companies, hospitals, disaster relief headquarters, temporary medical treatment sites and public security authority buildings resumed power supply at 11:34 p.m. Friday in Wenchuan County.
Death toll from the earthquake in Sichuan alone had exceeded 21,500 while 14,000 others remained buried as of 4 p.m. Friday, vice provincial governor Li Chengyun said at a press conference.
(Xinhua News Agency May 17, 2008)