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116752
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 14:59
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CHINESE RESCUERS STEP UP SEARCH FOR QUAKE SURVIVORS
Baku, April 15 (AzerTAc). Emergency teams have been searching the rubble for survivors, a day after a deadly quake devastated part of China`s mountainous Qinghai province.
Thousands of homeless people have spent the night in freezing temperatures. Officials say 617 people died and 9,980 were injured when the quake hit early on Wednesday; 313 remain missing.
Rescuers continue to search with their bare hands and picks, as heavy lifting equipment rolled towards the Yushu county disaster zone.
Long columns of military vehicles carrying diggers and other equipment, along with busloads of rescue workers and lorries full of aid, rumbled all night along the 1,000 km-long motorway separating Yushu from the provincial capital, Xining.
Thousands of homeless people have spent the night in freezing temperatures. Officials say 617 people died and 9,980 were injured when the quake hit early on Wednesday; 313 remain missing.
Rescuers continue to search with their bare hands and picks, as heavy lifting equipment rolled towards the Yushu county disaster zone.
Long columns of military vehicles carrying diggers and other equipment, along with busloads of rescue workers and lorries full of aid, rumbled all night along the 1,000 km-long motorway separating Yushu from the provincial capital, Xining.
