A partially collapsed student dormitory is shown after an explosion rips through a village in Pingshan, north China's Hebei Province May 9. Four were killed with 11 injured. The cause of the explosion is under investigation.

Residents and a police officer survey the site of the explosion.

A villager tries to remove shattered glass from his window after the explosion.

A villager grieves the death of her relatives.

(China Daily May 11, 2007)