Sichuan quake: Food supplies finally arrived, but still it wasn't enough
SCMP reporter Zhuang Pinghui on day three of the Sichuan earthquake
In the final part of SCMP reporter Zhuang Pinghui's account of the Sichuan earthquake, she reveals how the shell-shocked community of Longmen village came together to bury the dead.
Monday, April 22
More rescue materials arrived during the night and the next morning the town centre was piled high with bottled water and emergency food supplies.
Monks handed out hot porridge and people queued for hot buns donated by a bakery whose owner moved all his staff and cooking equipment from Chengdu to Lushan.
A bottled water manufacturer, reacting to a weather forecast of rain, dispatched umbrellas but was forced to stop after people fought for them.
As predicted, the rain came so we returned to some of the villages in Longmen township to see how they were coping, only to find more angry villagers. Around 100 were eating and living together in just five huts.
"We have few stocks and nobody came to us," said Chen Yan, 40. "It's the third day and we have one instant noodle and one bottle of water.