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Rescue workers have plucked more than 60 more survivors from the rubble following Monday's massive earthquake in southwestern China, as a strong new aftershock hit and the death toll rose to almost 30,000. The United States Geological Survey reported a tremor of 6.1 magnitude early on Sunday centered 80 km (50 miles) west of Guangyuan, the latest in a series of aftershocks to hit Sichuan province.
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FlagRescuers pulled at least seven people alive from the earthquake debris in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday, five days after the tremor. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Wenchuan County, about 159 km northwest of Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu, at 2:28 p.m. on Monday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao Saturday night urged local governments at all levels and relevant central government departments to take quake relief as the most important and pressing issue in their work. Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks at a meeting here after hearing reports on the situation of the rescue and relief work after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Sichuan Province.
China's premier is hero of quake rescue effort In the town of Beichuan, 60 miles to the south, thousands fled as the reports circulated. Rescue work resumed later in the day and experts were monitoring the river above Beichuan, the People's Daily newspaper said on its web site.
hina struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50,000. President Hu Jintao flew to the battered province of Sichuan and Premier Wen Jiabao said the quake damage could exceed the devastating 1976 tremor in the northeastern city of Tangshan that killed up to 300,000 people.
The only noises resounding in the deadly quietness in the Qingchuan County seat, devastated by an enormous earthquake, were the rumbles of an excavator. Japanese rescuers, the first group of foreign rescue professionals to arrive in the quake-stricken province, were searching for a mother Song Aimei and her 70-day-old daughter in the debris of a building at Jiefang Street.
China warned on Friday that a lake damaged by this week’s earthquake in Sichuan province may be about to burst its banks, as President Hu Jintao urged rescuers to race to save lives. Seriously injured people needed to be evacuated immediately in Beichuan, at the epicentre of Monday’s 7.9 magnitude quake, where the water level of a lake was rising rapidly and may burst, Xinhua news agency said.
Meanwhile, the United States Geological Survey reported a tremor of 6.1 magnitude centred 80km west of Guangyuan, the latest in a series of aftershocks to hit Sichuan province. There was no immediate word from the area of any damage or casualties. Rescue workers returned to Beichuan county, near the epicentre of the quake, in Sichuan province, but many residents were too frightened to return, nervous about a lake formed after aftershocks triggered landslides blocking the flow of a river. "After
The death toll from the 7.9-magnitude quake continued to climb as authorities cleared their way through pulverized towns and gained better access to isolated areas -- revealing a clearer picture of the full scale of the horror. The government raised the confirmed death toll by more than 6,000 to 28,881.
Rescue workers have returned to the Chinese town of Beichuan after the county was ordered to be evacuated amid fears that a lake may burst its banks. Thousands of people fled Beichuan in central Sichuan province, located near the epicentre of last week's devastating earthquake, to escape possible flooding. "After briefly evacuating, rescue work returned to normal at Beichuan," a Chinese official website said, blaming the evacuation on a false alarm.
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