CHINA-XINJIANG-YECHENG-CEMETERY GUARDIANS (CN)

CHINA-XINJIANG-YECHENG-CEMETERY GUARDIANS (CN)

(230430) -- YECHENG, April 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on April 16, 2023 shows the Yecheng Martyrs Cemetery in Yecheng, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Every April, flowers bloom in the Yecheng Martyrs Cemetery in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where 233 martyrs were buried. "I will take good care of the cemetery," said 53-year-old Eniwar Emer in front of his father's tombstone. Eniwar is a second-generation keeper for the Yecheng Martyrs Cemetery, following the footsteps of his father Emer Yit, who had maintained the graves there from 1970 until he died in August 2017. Yit retired from the army in 1968, when he landed a brief stint as village Party secretary in his hometown before later becoming headmaster of a local middle school. But he never felt quite fit for those jobs. It was in 1970 that he learned of a job opening for a guard at the Yecheng Martyrs Cemetery, where his fellow soldiers had been buried. He applied for the position, stro

Thousands evacuated as wildfire rips through Spain's Tenerife

STORY: Thousands evacuated as wildfire rips through Spain's Tenerife DATELINE: Oct. 7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the people being evacuated in Tenerife, Canary Islands STORYLINE: Around 3,000 people have been evacuated from their homes on the Spanish island of Tenerife due to a raging wildfire, the Canary Islands' regional government said on Thursday. Unseasonal hot weather plus strong winds has reignited a wildfire that originally began on Aug. 15. The blaze has already burned around 12,273 hectares of land, in the worst wildfire ever to hit the Canary Islands, which are located off the northwest coast of Africa. Around 12,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in and around Santa Ursula and La Orotava in the northeast of the island. The fire was brought under control by firefighters on Sept. 11, but had not been fully extinguished. Temperatures of over 30 degrees centigrade (well above average for October), coupled with stro

CHINA-XINJIANG-YECHENG-CEMETERY GUARDIANS (CN)

CHINA-XINJIANG-YECHENG-CEMETERY GUARDIANS (CN)

(230430) -- YECHENG, April 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on April 16, 2023 shows the Yecheng Martyrs Cemetery in Yecheng, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Every April, flowers bloom in the Yecheng Martyrs Cemetery in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where 233 martyrs were buried. "I will take good care of the cemetery," said 53-year-old Eniwar Emer in front of his father's tombstone. Eniwar is a second-generation keeper for the Yecheng Martyrs Cemetery, following the footsteps of his father Emer Yit, who had maintained the graves there from 1970 until he died in August 2017. Yit retired from the army in 1968, when he landed a brief stint as village Party secretary in his hometown before later becoming headmaster of a local middle school. But he never felt quite fit for those jobs. It was in 1970 that he learned of a job opening for a guard at the Yecheng Martyrs Cemetery, where his fellow soldiers had been buried. He applied for the position, stro