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May 13, 2008
GRIEF
Relatives cry over the body of a young girl lying on a door used as a make-shift stretcher, after she was removed from a collapsed building in a school after a massive earthquake in the town of Juyuan near the city of Dujiangyan, Sichuan, on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/David Gray
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A Chinese man looks helplessly at a young student who died clutching a pen from a school that collapsed in Juyuan. -- PHOTO: AP
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May 13, 2008
ON MY SHOULDERS
A soldier carries a wounded child as she is rescued after an earthquake in Beichuan, Sichuan. China poured more troops into the earthquake-ravaged province of Sichuan on Wednesday to quicken a search for survivors as time ran out for thousands of people still buried under rubble and mud. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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Fears were mounting that as many as 900 students of Juyuan Secondary School were buried in the debris of the school. Juyuan Secondary School was practically an open-air morgue on Tuesday as parents came to identify their children who have perished in the earthquake. -- PHOTO: SPH
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May 13, 2008
STRETCHERED OUT
A wounded person is carried out after being buried for more then 20 hours from a building that collapsed during an earthquake, in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/China Daily
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May 13, 2008
Some parents who had already received the bodies of their children from Juyuan Secondary School in Beichuan and had no hope left anymore wailed loudly, either alone or hugging their spouses. -- PHOTO: AP
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May 13, 2008
'IS IT OVER?'
On the road to the epicentre of China's horror earthquake, shell-shocked survivors carried out the bodies of victims while others walked the other way in hopes of finding their missing relatives. -- PHOTO: AFP/ LIU JIN
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May 13, 2008
RELENTLESS RAIN
Rescuers carry a dead body in Dujiangyan, Sichuan after an earthquake measuring 7.8 rocked the province. bad weather and the destruction of roads severely hampered the effort, forcing relief teams to hike into areas ravaged by the quake, which has killed at least 12,000 people and reduced schools and factories to rubble -- PHOTO: AFP PHOTO/TEH Eng Koon
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May 13, 2008
ANOTHER LIFE SAVED
An elderly woman is pulled out alive after being trapped for two days in an apartment that collapsed in Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan province on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan
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May 13, 2008
EVACUATED
Pupils from a primary school take part in an earthquake drill in Hefei, Anhui province. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the military forces that had been deployed for the relief effort should also prepare for the air-dropping of food and medicine into affected regions.
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May 13, 2008
HOLDING ON
A nurse helps a trapped youth in the earthquake-hit region of Beichuan County, Sichuan Province. Rescue workers sifted through tangled debris of toppled schools and homes for thousands of victims buried or missing after China's worst earthquake in three decades, as the death toll soared to more than 12,000 people in the hardest-hit province alone. -- PHOTO: AP Photo / Li Gang, Xinhua
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May 13, 2008
Survivors
An injured man whose leg is trapped receives care on the debris of a collapsed building at Juyuan Middle School after an earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan on Monday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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May 13, 2008
WRECKED
A rescue worker walks past the wreckage of a car and destroyed houses after an earthquake in Hanwang town in Mianzhu, located around 83 km (50 miles) north of Chengdu. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Jason Lee
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May 13, 2008
HOMELESS
Locals gather on a campus in the earthquake-affected Beichuan County, Sichuan on Tuesday, either because they did not want to go home for fear of aftershocks, or because they no longer had any home to return to-- PHOTO: AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Xie
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May 13, 2008
GIVE IT A BREAK
An injured man takes a rest along a collapsed mountain road from China's horror earthquake county of Wechuan on Wednesday. On the road to the epicentre of China's horror earthquake, shell-shocked survivors carried out the bodies of victims while others walked the other way in hopes of finding their missing relatives. -- PHOTO: AFP PHOTO/TEH Eng Koon
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May 13, 2008
RESCUED
A patient is evacuated from a hospital after an earthquake in Xi'an, Shaanxi on Monday. Five children were killed and more than 100 injured in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, causing buildings to sway and sending residents rushing into the streets. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Ben Ruan
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May 13, 2008
DEATH OF A CHILD
Parents mourn the death of their child near a school damaged following the powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Hanwang town in Sichuan province on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AP Photo/Andy Wong
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May 13, 2008
THE BOY WHO SURVIVED
China poured more troops into the earthquake-ravaged province of Sichuan on Wednesday to quicken a search for survivors as time ran out for thousands of people still buried under rubble and mud. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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May 13, 2008
ALL THAT IS LEFT
Efforts by relief teams to reach Wenchuan county have been hindered by massive damage to roads leading into the area, forcing the military to airdrop supplies and troops. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/David Gray
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May 13, 2008
LONG ROUTE BACK FOR THE HOMELESS
Survivors carry an injured woman as they make their exodus in Wenchuan County along a collapsed mountain road - the only escape route from the earthquake epicentre of Wenchuan city on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AFP PHOTO/ LIU JIN
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May 13, 2008
PASSER BY
A cyclist rides past a dead body of an earthquake victim covered with plastic in front of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan, Sichuan. China was reeling from its worst earthquake in three decades which left tens of thousands of people dead, missing or trapped under crushed houses, schools and factories. -- PHOTO: AFP PHOTO/TEH Eng Koon
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May 13, 2008
UNDER THE DEBRIS
An arm of a victim is seen amidst the debris of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan. China has mobilised more than 50,000 soldiers to help with disaster relief work following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake to reach the worst-hit areas where many more may have died. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Aly Song
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May 13, 2008
LOSS
The parents of an earthquake victim mourn near their child's body at the site of a collapsed school building in Dujiangyan, Sichuan. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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Glimpse of light
Rescue workers pull out a young girl from under the rubble of a collapsed school in Juyuan, southwestern China's Sichuan province on Tuesday. The death toll from a powerful earthquake in China that toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants climbed Tuesday to about 12,000, while untold numbers remained trapped after the country's worst quake in three decades. -- PHOTO: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan
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May 13, 2008
Rescuers reaching out for a young toddler. Schoolchildren bear the brunt of China's worst earthquake in thirty years. -- PHOTO: XINHUA
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May 13, 2008
ON THE STREETS
Chinese residents sleep on a junction on a street in Chengdu, Sichuan province early on Tuesday after an earthquake. China was reeling from its worst earthquake in three decades which left tens of thousands of people dead, missing or trapped under crushed houses, schools and factories. -- PHOTO: AFP/XINHU
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May 13, 2008
MAKESHIFT WARDS
Two wounded men receive medical treatment outside makeshift tents a day after an earthquake struck Sichuan Province, in neighboring Ningqiang County, north China's Shaanxi Province, on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AP Photo/Xinhua, Tao Ming
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May 13, 2008
RESCUE TROOPS
Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) search for survivors from the debris of a collapsed school building in the Juyuan county of Dujiangyan, Sichuan province on Tuesday. Nearly 12,000 people were killed in the earthquake that hammered southwest China. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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May 13, 2008
CRYING FOR THE DEAD
PLA soldiers try to comfort distressed relatives of victims as rescue workers dig out victims who are still buried under the remains of an apartment block that collapsed after an earthquake shook the city of Dujiangyan. Heavy storms and wrecked roads hampered efforts to reach areas hardest-hit by China's worst earthquake in three decades on Tuesday as the death toll rose to around 12,000. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/David Gray
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May 13, 2008
MASSIVE QUAKE
The Sichuan quake was the worst to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan tremor in north-eastern China where up to 300,000 died. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)
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May 13, 2008
THE SEARCH CONTINUES
Chinese rescuers search for survivors at one of the two primary schools that toppled killing four schoolchildren and injuring 110 others in the Chongqing region on Monday. A total of 8,533 people have died in China's Sichuan province after a powerful earthquake struck there on Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the local government. -- PHOTO: AFP
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May 13, 2008
Red-eyed Pair
Two Chinese boys recover at a hospital after they were pulled out from a collapsed school in Chongqing, Sichuan province on Monday. Taken to the edge of the schoolyard, which had turned muddy after overnight rains, the earthquake victims were placed under a tarp canopy and wrapped in sheets and blankets. Some of the linens were splattered with blood. -- PHOTO: AFP
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May 13, 2008
UP THE MOUNTAN OF DEBRIS
A total of 16,760 soldiers had already begun relief efforts as of Tuesday morning, while another 34,000 were advancing towards quake-hit regions by plane, train, truck and on foot, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Aly Song
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May 13, 2008
FLEE
A resident walks past the rubble of a destroyed house after an earthquake in the village of Dujiangyan. Most farmers' homes in two townships had collapsed and there was no word from the three townships nearest the epicentre, which have a population of 24,000, the report added. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Aly Song
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May 13, 2008
Stiffen up, little soldier
An injured student cries while receiving medical checks near the debris of a collapsed building at a primary school at Liangping County after an earthquake in Chongqing municipality. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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May 13, 2008
ALL IS LOST
A wounded man stands outside his destroyed home a day after the biggest earthquake for a generation left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under the rubble of crushed communities, plunging the nation into an all-out aid effort. -- PHOTO: AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON
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May 13, 2008
SAFE AND SOUND
A boy is rescued from the debris of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province on Monday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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May 13, 2008
SO LONG, MATE
A Chinese man mourns the death of a student near the site of a school that collapsed in Juyuan, Sichuan on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan
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May 13, 2008
Through the heap of rubble
Rescuers search for victims in the debris of a hospital after the earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province on Monday. -- PHOTO: AP Photo/Color China
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May 13, 2008
A Mother's anguish I
A mother mourns near the body of her child who was killed when a school building collapsed during an earthquake in the Juyuan county of Dujiangyan, Sichuan province on Monday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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A Mother's anguish II
A Chinese woman mourns near two student's bodies pulled out from a collapsed school in Juyuan, southwestern China's Sichuan province on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan
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May 13, 2008
A Mother's anguish III
A mother mourns as Chinese soldiers carry the body of her child who was killed when a school building collapsed during the earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province on Monday. The confirmed death toll from a massive earthquake in southwestern China has risen to nearly 12,000. -- PHOTO: AFP PHOTO/TEH Eng Koon
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May 13, 2008
YOUNG AND HELPLESS
A wounded girl receives medical treatment at a makeshift ward in the earthquake-affected Liangping County, Chongqing, southwestern China on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Chan
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May 13, 2008
Stranded
Residents rest on a street after an earthquake in Mianyang, Sichuan province on Tuesday. A total of 16,760 soldiers had already begun relief efforts as of Tuesday morning, while another 34,000 were advancing towards quake-hit regions by plane, train, truck and on foot. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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May 13, 2008
NO TIME TO LOSE
Rescuers carry an injured man out from the debris of a collapsed building at Juyuan Middle School after an earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province on Monday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer
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