World | earthquake Grief Turns to Fury For Quake Survivors Anger flares among parents whose children lie in rubble By Jason Farago Posted May 13, 2008 10:15 AM CDT Copied In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, local residents work to clear away debris from a collapsed building in Mianzhu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ye Jianping) As rescue efforts continue in western China, the mood among survivors of the earthquake has transformed from grief to fury: at the military, at builders, and above all at the government. In Dujiangyan, where several hundreds pupils died when a school collapsed, the Guardian reports that residents tried to push through military police and begged Western media to circulate their stories. A massive rescue effort is now underway across Sichuan province, but survivors had begun to blame corrupt officials and rapacious contractors for the devastation. "They have money for prostitutes and second wives but they don't have money for our children," said one woman who lost her daughter. "This is not a natural disaster—this is done by humans." Read These Next A former NFL Pro Bowler has died at age 36. Backlash for Trump nominee who said he has 'a Nazi streak.' The massive AWS failure exposed a big problem with the internet. A man ended up dead after trying to steal from Spirit Halloween. Report an error