Old clothes in need of new home

CHENGDU: Sixty tons of secondhand clothes intended for victims of the Sichuan earthquake will be put up for auction here on Saturday, as nobody wants them, local authorities said yesterday.

Li Huarong, head of the bureau of civil affairs in the Qingbai district of Chengdu, said authorities had run out of space to hold the huge volume of clothes received following the May 12 disaster.

"Once our warehouses were full, we had to rent a badminton court just to store them," she said.