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| 5,000 FEARED DEAD IN CHINA EARTHQUA |
| A powerful earthquake struck central China on Monday and state media reported that as many as 5,000 people were killed in a single county while nearly
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| CHINA, PEOPLES REP. OF
, 12-May-2008
8:13:41 AM |
| A powerful earthquake struck central China on Monday and state media reported that as many as 5,000 people were killed in a single county while nearly 900 students were trapped after their school collapsed.
The official Xinhua News Agency said 3,000 to 5,000 people had died in Beichuan county in Sichuan province after the 7.8-magnitude quake. Another 10,000 people there were believed to be hurt.
The earthquake sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.
Four of the dead were ninth-grade students killed when their high school collapsed, Xinhua said. Photos showed heavy cranes trying to remove rubble from the ruined school. Xinhua did not say how many of the students were feared dead.
It said its reporters in Juyuan township, about 96 km from the epicenter, saw buried teenagers struggling to break loose from underneath the rubble of the three-story building ''while others were crying out for help.''
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