Elderly try hard to deal with trauma

MIANYANG: At a corner of the city's Jiuzhou Stadium, one of the biggest camps set up for those left homeless in the quake, 62-year-old Liu Yaorong was leaning against a window yesterday.

Pointing to a quilt and clothes he received from the local government, he said: "These are all I have. My home collapsed in the quake, and everything in the town was flooded."

He used to live in Xuanping town of Beichuan county which was devastated by the quake. Adding to his woes, rivers blocked by landslides led to flooding in the town.