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Survivors queue for food at a disaster relief centre housed in a sports complex in Mianyang
17 May 2008
Source: Reuters
 
REFILE - CORRECTING DATE Survivors queue for food at a disaster relief centre housed in a sports complex in Mianyang, Sichuan province May 17, 2008. China has put the known death toll at over 22,000 but has said it expects it to exceed 50,000 days after the most destructive earthquake to hit modern China, state media said on Saturday. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT
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Residents and rescue workers evacuate to higher grounds from the centre of earthquake-hit Beichuan county,Sichuan province, May 17, 2008 . A Chinese county near the epicentre of a 7.9 magnitude earthquake ...




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