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China Earthquake death toll rises to 10,000

Date: 2008-5-16 0:19:00 by chinatravel Tags: Earthquake Sichuan

Patients were evacuated from hospitals to a open field

The deadly earthquake that rocked southwestern China and felt all across the country and beyond, has killed more than 10,000 people by early Tuesday, and the death toll is expected to climb as rescue efforts are intensifying.

The 7.8-magnitude tremor devastated a region of small cities and towns set amid steep and forestry hills northwestern of Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu. Str

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Death toll exceeds 12,000 in Sichuan, 9,400 trapped

Date: 2008-5-13 22:50:00 by chinatravel Tags: Earthquake Sichuan

Sichuan Earthquake

Rescuers were Tuesday night racing against time to find survivors a day after the strongest quake to hit China in 32 years jolted Sichuan province, demolishing buildings and burying tens of thousands beneath the rubble.

Hundreds of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers entered Wenchuan county, the epicenter, on Tuesday and pulled more than 1,000 people from debris, accord

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