China quake death toll rises to about 10,000 : Latest News
                   
valleymorningstar.com     May 13, 2008            

By WILLIAM FOREMANThe Associated Press CHENGDU, China - A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades. [read full story]                    


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