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May 16, 2008
RESCUE TEAM
A Taiwanese rescue team and a sniffer dog gear up in Taipei before heading to southwest China to help with rescue efforts following this week's devastating earthquake. Some 80 Taiwanese volunteers, including doctors, arrived in the worst-hit Sichuan province to join relief efforts. -- PHOTOS: REUTERS, AP, AFP
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May 16, 2008
SAVING A LIFE
Chinese soldiers evacuate the wounded during the rescue operation in Beichuan County of the earthquake-hit Sichuan Province in China.
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May 16, 2008
MORE HELP ARRIVING
A Japanese rescue team arrive at Sichuan Province to assist local disaster relief efforts. The first foreign rescue team, a group from about 60 people from Japan, have arrived in Sichuan.
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May 16, 2008
A SURVIVOR
Teenager Wang Yi, 14, was badly crushed by fellow students who tried to flee the Xu Mu Secondary School when the earthquake struck on Monday. She lost consciousness during her ordeal, but was eventually rescued by a teacher. ST PHOTO: CHUA CHIN HON
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May 16, 2008
FINAL GOODBYE
Parents clean the hands of their child who died in the earthquake in Pingwu County, southwest China's Sichuan province.
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May 16, 2008
UNTOLD GRIEF
A Chinese family grieves after identifing the body of a loved one at a temporary mortuary in Mianzhu, southwest China's Sichuan province. China said that over 50,000 people had likely died in the devastating earthquake that hit its southwest as time runs out to save survivors buried under the rubble.
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May 16, 2008
A MOTHER'S GRIEF
A mother grieves after identifying her child killed in a collapsed school building in Wenchuan. China struggled to bury the dead and offer relief to those left injured, homeless and without food and water by the earthquake.
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May 16, 2008
GRIEF
Mr Liu Zhoubo grieves over the body of his grandson Liu Dingxian, 15, who was recovered from the wreckage of Juyuan Secondary School. Hundreds of teenage students in Juyuan, Northwest of Sichuan provincial capital Chengdu, perished after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on Monday. -- ST PHOTO: CHUA CHIN HON
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May 16, 2008
GRIEF
Mothers hold the chest card of their children who died in the earthquake in Pingwu County, Sichuan province
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May 16, 2008
COMFORT FOR THE PEOPLE
China's Premier Wen Jiabao comforts earthquake survivors in Muyu Township of Qingchuan County, Sichuan province. Mr Wen called on officials to ensure social stability as frustration and exhaustion grew among survivors, many who lost everything and are living in makeshift tents or in the open air.
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May 16, 2008
IN REMEMBERENCE
A group of Chinese students hold a candle-light vigil for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake in Xian, northern China's Shaanxi province.
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May 16, 2008
NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK
An earthquake survivor tries to salvage what she can from her destroyed house, with the background of smoke rising from a chemical plant, where liquid ammonia leaked during the earthquake, in the Ronghua Township.
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May 16, 2008
RELIEVED
Rescuers transport injured people from the earthquake-stricken Yingxiu Town of Wenchuan County, Sichuan province. -- PHOTOS: REUTERS, AP, AFP
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May 16, 2008
ESCAPE
In this image still from video, a young woman holding an infant walks from a cloud of dust during the earthquake in a mountain reserve outside Chengdu, China.
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May 16, 2008
DISEMBARKMENT
Fresh aid reached China's earthquake-devastated areas on Thursday but the sheer magnitude of caring for tens of thousands of homeless, grieving survivors threatened to overwhelm relief efforts. Many of the injured are evacuated by boat to safety due to severely damaged roads.
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May 16, 2008
SLEEPING CHILDREN
Earthquake survivors sleep at a temporary shelter in Beichuan County, Sichuan Province, China.
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May 16, 2008
THE UNFORTUNATE DEAD
The bodies of victims are seen near a collapsed building in the earthquake-hit Beichuan County, Sichuan Province.
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May 16, 2008
TEAM RESCUE EFFORT
The damaged Zipingpu Dam near the hard-hit city of Dujiangyan has caused serious cracks on the ground. Some 2,000 troops have been sent to stabilize it.
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May 16, 2008
FATHER AND DAUGHTER
A father rests beside his daughter, who survived Monday's earthquake after her school collapsed in Hanwang, at a hospital in Deyang, Sichuan province.
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May 16, 2008
IN UTTER RUINS
A police car lays destroyed by the earthquake amongst the ruins in Beichuan Town of Mianyang City, Sichuan Province.
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May 16, 2008
ACT OF LOVE
A man washes the foot of his child, who was killed by a collapsed school building, as the body is temporarily kept on a playground in the earthquake-hit Hanwang town of Mianzhu, Sichuan.
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May 16, 2008
TEMP HOME
Earthquake survivors sleep at a temporary shelter in Beichuan County, Sichuan.
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May 16, 2008
IF WE HOLD ON TOGETHER
In this image from video, women collapse on a road in a cloud of dust during a powerful earthquake in a mountain reserve outside Chengdu.
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May 16, 2008
GRUESOME TASK
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.
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May 16, 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 16, 2008
TRAPPED
Boys are trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building at the earthquake-hit Beichuan County.
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May 16, 2008
RESCUE EFFORTS
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 16, 2008
PRAYER FOR THE DEAD
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 16, 2008
BEEFING UP RESCUE EFFORTS
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. -- ST PHOTO: CHUA CHIN HON
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May 16, 2008
ITS GONNA BE OK
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 16, 2008
ITS A MIRACLE
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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