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PHOTOS: Rescue efforts after China quake
16 May 2008 10:51:00 GMT
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Soldiers wait to conduct relief work at earthquake-hit Shifang, Sichuan province, May 16, 2008. REUTERS/ Stringer
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Residents look for survivors amongst the ruins of collapsed apartment blocks in the city of Beichuan, located around 150 km north of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province May 16, 2008. China struggled to bury the dead and help tens of thousands of injured, homeless and hungry on Friday, four days after a massive earthquake which is expected to have killed more than 50,000. REUTERS/David Gray
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A man carries his son as they evacuate from the earthquake-hit Yingxiu town of Wenchuan, Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/ Stringer
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A survivor grieves amid the ruins of her collapsed house at the earthquake-hit Yingxiu town of Wenchuan, Sichuan province May 15, 2008. REUTERS/China Daily
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A rescued girl is carried by a soldier onto a helicopter at the earthquake-hit Yingxiu town of Wenchuan, Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/ Stringer
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A helicopter heads towards collapsed buildings in earthquake-hit Beichuan County, in Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/ Stringer
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A fly is seen on gauze of an injured survivor at a temporary clinic in earthquake-hit Mianzhu, Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/Jianan Yu
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A relative of an earthquake victim prays for the dead at the site of a collapsed school building in Wenchuan, Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/Aly Song
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An elderly couple, both more than 60 years old, constructs a makeshift shelter for their family of eight at a farm at a village in the earthquake-hit An county, Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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School bags are seen among the rubble of a collapsed primary school at the township of Wufu in Mianzhu city, north of Chengdu, in Sichuan province May 15, 2008. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
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A local resident cries while she looks for her relative in the ruins of the destroyed old city district near a mountain at the earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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A rescue worker carries a survivor from a collapsed building in the old city district near a mountain at the earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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A soldier carries a baby at the earthquake-hit Beichuan county, about 160km (99 miles) northeast of the epicentre at Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/ Stringer
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A rescue worker wipes his eyes as he looks for survivors in a collapsed apartment block in the city of Dujiangyan, about 50km (31 miles) north of Chengdu in Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. REUTERS/David Gray
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A young girl plays inside a damaged classroom in Yongan county in Mianyang City, Sichuan province May 14, 2008. Yongan has become a ghost town. Its residents are either dead, evacuated, or camping out in the local school yard. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV
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