Looking for lost hope in a devastated community

When the ambulance arrived, two medical staff jumped out and ran into the Peace Ark field hospital holding two boys in their arms. The boys had been found in a swollen river. One was 7 years old, the other 6.

Although the boys showed no life signs, emergency surgeon Chen Ruifeng and another doctor gave them cardiopulmonary resuscitation and hoped for a miracle. All to no avail.

"Let them go. It's too late," said the doctor after using a flashlight to check the pupils of one of the boys while Chen continued to perform cardiac massage.