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However, police have advised Tianjin's more than 13 million residents to avoid moving around the city if possible and to stick to shops nearby them to purchase any immediate necessities.

"Their home is now very well protected. They have food and drink, no worries about life's necessities and, most of all, their numbers are growing."

They lived in brick houses and buried their dead along with daily necessities like food grains and pots in massive burial urns in Kondagai.

Behind the headlines and beyond the numbers, flesh and blood people are cut off from basic necessities, including food, clean water, and medical care.

“At the beginning, we were just worried about basic necessities. Then the reality set in of ‘I have no home, I can’t go back,’” Hillsides’ Roth said.