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May 15, 2008
Parents try to identify a body found at a collapsed high school in the township of Hanwang, in Mianzhu city north of Chengdu. China poured more troops to speed up the search for survivors as time ran out for thousands of people buried under rubble and mud. -- PHOTOS: REUTERS, AP, AFP
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May 15, 2008
Bodies are seen after they were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan. The official death toll from Monday's earthquake reached almost 15,000 with many thousands more missing.
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May 15, 2008
Boys are trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building at the earthquake-hit Beichuan County.
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May 15, 2008
Chinese military personnel stand on the debris of a collapsed elementary school while looking for pupils in the outskirts of Shifang, one of the hard-hit cities. A large dam near the hard-hit city of Dujiangyan has been damaged by the quake causing serious cracks; some 2,000 troops have been sent to stabilize it.
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May 15, 2008
Earthquake victims burn joss papers to pray for dead relatives killed in the earthquake in the outskirts of Shifang, one of the hard-hit cities, of Sichuan Province, China. The death toll has already risen to nearly 15,000 and is expected to rise with 25,000 still missing.
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May 15, 2008
The journey to Wenchuan is a long and difficult one, particularly after the quake destroyed the main road to the south-western Chinese county. Soldiers and police had to cross this waterlogged bridge en route to Wenzhou city yesterday, sometimes navigating a narrow plank on the side of the bridge, while loaded with supplies and rescue equipment. -- PHOTO: CHUA CHIN HON
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May 15, 2008
A rescuer comforts high-school student Yang Liu (centre), whose legs were trapped under concrete which had to be removed to save her life.
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May 15, 2008
Three-year-old Song Xinyi trapped for more than 40 hours under the bodies of her parents was pulled to safety yesterday morning in Beichuan county, one of the worst-hit areas.
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May 15, 2008
Rescue workers were left exhausted yesterday after two days of sifting through the rubble in Dujiangyan, near Chengdu.
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