Quake death

A 28-YEAR-OLD Shenzhen man, Xie Zhongshun, was killed in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Jiuzhaigou County in Sichuan Province on Aug. 8.

Xie lived in a residential estate in the Meilin area in Futian District.

According to the information office of the Sichuan Provincial Government, the earthquake had caused 25 deaths as of Sunday.

Green lights

THE city’s traffic police gave priority to a car that carried a pregnant woman from Buji to Shenzhen People’s Hospital on Monday morning. The pregnant woman was in urgent need of medical treatment due to suffering a massive hemorrhage while the car was stuck in a traffic jam on a Buji road.

The traffic police gave green lights to the car when it passed from Lanhua Road to Longgang Boulevard and deployed a police car escort to the hospital. It took the car only seven minutes to travel what takes 20 minutes in normal traffic condition.

Smuggled giant shells

A MAN was detained by customs officers at Luohu Checkpoint as he tried to bring three tridacnas, a species under first-grade State protection in China, across the border from Hong Kong to Shenzhen. Tridacna, the largest bivalve mollusk in the world, is a rare marine species that is forbidden from being mailed or carried across the border without legal certificates.

Border flu cases

STATISTICS from the Shenzhen Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau showed that 848 flu cases were found at border checkpoints in Shenzhen in June and 1,468 flu cases were found in July, both of which represent significant growth compared with the same period last year.