In the south of the capital city, in a temporary medical camp dedicated to the lightly wounded…
According to later statistics, more than five million people were gathered in the Federal Square and the ten or so blocks nearby. Even more people lingered in the blocks further away.
The explosion of the crystal bombs turned the gathered citizens into panicked bees. Everybody pushed, stepped on, and crashed into each other. The number of casualties soon surpassed twenty thousand.
The heavily wounded were sent to the major hospitals in the capital city. As for the 'lightly wounded', who had nothing more than broken bones, there were not enough medical facilities to accommodate them at all. They could only be treated in the temporary medical camps by part of the medical staff and the civilian volunteers with some knowledge of first aid.
The unprecedented disaster in fact facilitated Li Yao's escape.
