China quake death toll rises to nearly 10,000 (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Mon, 05/12/2008 - 7:18pm

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a wounded resident, center, lies on a bed to receive treatment after Monday's powerful earthquake, in Longnan, northwest China's Gansu Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.<br /><br />State media reports that the death toll from the earthquake in central China has climbed to nearly 10,000 in the worst-hit province.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Xinhua, Han Chuanhao)AP - A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing nearly 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades.



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