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Report: China quake survivor freed after 195 hours buried

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May 20, 2008
        

A woman who survived by drinking rainwater was rescued alive Tuesday after being trapped in the rubble of China's earthquake for more than 195 hours, news reports said, while the death toll in the disaster rose to more than 40,000. The tales of survival came as the confirmed death toll from the...

                   
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Quake survivors rescued from cliff

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May 20, 2008
        

10 people saved from remote cliff; total dead and missing raised to 70,000 In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, 56-year-old Wang Chunbang, who had been under debris for 164 hours, is rescued in quake-hit southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday. Around 10 workers were rescued...

                   

China says 40,000 dead, 5 million homeless after quake; govt struggling to provide shelter

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May 20, 2008
        

By WILLIAM FOREMAN , Associated Press CHENGDU, China - In Washington, President Bush and his wife, Laura, visited the Chinese Embassy to sign a condolence book for quake victims and said the country was "ready to assist in any manner that China deems helpful." A growing number of countries...

                   

Report: Quake Survivor Freed After 8 Days

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May 20, 2008
        

Trapped Woman Survived By Drinking Rainwater; China: 40,000 Dead, 5 Million Homeless CHENGDU, China, May 20, 2008 Residents sleep in the main square in Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province early Tuesday, May 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (CBS/AP) A woman who survived by drinking rainwater was...

                   

Woman trapped for 195 hours by quake freed in China

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May 20, 2008
        

By WILLIAM FOREMAN Associated Press CHENGDU, China — Rescuers freed a 60-year-old woman today who was trapped for more than 195 hours after last week's earthquake and had survived by drinking rainwater, while the confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000. The tale of survival came after the...

                   

China quake toll: 40,000 dead, 5 million homeless

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May 20, 2008
        

By WILLIAM FOREMAN | Associated Press Writer CHENGDU, China - Rescuers freed a 60-year-old woman Tuesday who was trapped for more than 195 hours after last week's earthquake and had survived by drinking rainwater, while the confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000. The tales of survival came...

                   

Woman, 60, rescued from China earthquake rubble

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May 20, 2008
        

By WILLIAM FOREMAN | Associated Press Writer CHENGDU, China - Rescuers freed a 60-year-old woman Tuesday who was trapped for more than 195 hours after last week's earthquake and had survived by drinking rainwater, while the confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000. The tales of survival came...

                   

China: 40,000 dead, 5 million homeless after quake

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May 20, 2008
        

By William Foreman Associated Press Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:19 a.m. MDT CHENGDU, China — China said it was struggling to find shelter for many of the 5 million people whose homes were destroyed in last week's earthquake, while the confirmed death toll rose Tuesday to more than 40,000....

                   

China says over 70 000 dead or missing from quake

mg.co.za
May 20, 2008
        

China raised the number of dead or missing from a earthquake to more than 70 000 on Tuesday, as rescuers found more survivors eight days after the tremor hit. The government said the number killed had now topped 40 000, and news agency Xinhua reported that a further 32 000 were missing.

                   
ctv.ca: A man wearing a protective mask cycles past collapsed buildings ruined by last week's powerful earthquake in Hanwang, Sichuan province, China, Tuesday, May 20, 2008. (AP / Andy Wong) ctv.ca

Earthquake death toll in China passes 40,000

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May 20, 2008
        

The Associated Press CHENGDU, China -- The confirmed death toll in China's massive earthquake rose past 40,000 on Tuesday even as China said it was struggling to find shelter for many of the five million people whose homes were destroyed in the tremor. The State Council, China's cabinet, raised...