Cosmeticians restore crash victims

WENZHOU, Zhejiang - Xu Kangfei scrupulously combed the messy hair of a young woman who was lying on a mortuary slab with a serene expression on her face.

"I want to make it as neat as it is in this photo; she has beautiful, pitch-black, long hair," said Xu, a mortuary cosmetician who is responsible for cleaning, embalming and putting make-up on the bodies of the victims of the recent high-speed train crash.

The young woman, Mu Linan, had been a stewardness aboard the train that rammed into the rear of another train near Wenzhou in East China's Zhejiang province on July 23.