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VIDEO: China troops boost quake rescue
14 May 2008 16:10:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet
May 14 - Thousands of extra troops head to Sichuan to join those already searching for survivors of the massive earthquake.

Some 30,000 additional troops are being sent to the stricken region where Monday's devastating earthquake of 7.9 magnitude flattened homes, schools, hospitals and factories.

Paul Chapman reports.




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Residents search for their family at a collapsed building after an earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province May 13, 2008. China said on Tuesday an earthquake centred in the southwest province of ...



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