Troops hike to quake-buried Chinese villages (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Tue, 05/13/2008 - 7:53pm

A soldier holds back relatives trying to enter a collapsed school building, after an earthquake in Dujiangyan City, 50km (31 miles) from Chengdu in Sichuan province May 13, 2008.<br /><br />(Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)AP - Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings.

The death toll of more than 12,000 was certain to rise as the buried were found.




 

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