Russian Rescuers Pull Survivor from China Quake Rubble

                   
voanews.com: Rescuers search for earthquake survivors amongst the rubble of collapsed buildings in Beichuan county, Sichuan province, 17 May 2008 voanews.com
voanews.com     May 17, 2008            

Russian rescue workers pulled a survivor from the rubble of China's earthquake-stricken southwest Saturday. The 51-person Russian team is the first group of foreign rescuers to find a survivor in the aftermath of Monday's 7.9 magnitude earthquake. The state-run Xinhua news agency says the Russian... [read full story]                

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Magical moments after earthquake

people.com.cn     May 15, 2008          

Dujiangyan and Beichuan have become synonymous with death and destruction after being ravaged by the earthquake which struck Sichuan province on Monday. In Dujiangyan city, exhausted rescuers and residents cheered when they pulled an eight-month-pregnant woman and her mother alive from the rubble...                

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Moving Stories of China's Earthquake Survivors

epochtimes.com     May 17, 2008          

As of May 15, the China State Council Earthquake Relief Headquarters reported that the quake in Sichuan Province took 19,509 lives. Short of resources and manpower, China's disaster response team still struggle to find survivors in the rubble left behind from this devastating quake. At 10:40a.m....                

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Rescuers sent back from earthquake

msn.com     May 17, 2008          

Rescuers in earthquake-hit China continued to pull bodies from collapsed buildings as a specialist British team was refused permission to join the operation.Five days after the 7.9-magnitude quake, the official death toll reached almost 29,000, with 148,000 soldiers and police, involved in the...                

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