Cops play their part with tender care

HUANGTU, Sichuan: Wu Jie is the only child of her parents. But the 27-year-old still doesn't have time to take care of mother and father, who have been living in a tent in Mianyang city since the quake struck on May 12.

Wu is a policewoman who, along with her six colleagues in the police station, has to maintain law and order in Huangtu. Also, she has the 40,000 residents of the township's 24 villages to take care of.

Huangtu lies between Mianyang and Beichuan, two of the worst hit places by the quake. So she and colleagues have had to patrol the villages, looking out for any fire or other hazard in the temporary shelters that are made of inflammable material.