Funeral follows wedding for heroic village teacher
By Fu Jing | China Daily | Updated: 2008-05-14 07:24
Village teacher Gou Xiaochao, 24, was scheduled to start his honeymoon today.
Instead his funeral will be held today.
Heartbroken villagers, relatives and colleagues stayed up Monday night as the hero lay in a coffin at his home in the mountainous Tongjiang county of Sichuan province, about 400 km away from the quake's epicenter.
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