ABC News: China's Misery Grows With 15,000 Dead, 26,000 Entombed and 14,000 Missing
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p 05-14) 13:26 PDT DUJIANGYAN, China (AP) Modern apartment buildings and schools crumbled, smoothly paved highways buckled and bridges collapsed - their flimsy construction no match for the awesome forces of nature. (article 8)
As the death toll soars from the powerful earthquake that ravaged central China's Sichuan province, the scale of the devastation is raising questions about the quality of China's recent construction boom. (article 8)
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. (article 3)
The 7.9-magnitude quake devastated a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills north of Sichuan's provincial capital of Chengdu. (article 3)
Rescue workers raced to find survivors of the worst earthquake to strike China for 32 years as schools, factories and a hospital were reduced to rubble yesterday afternoon at a time when classrooms were full and work-places busy. (article 6)
By early this morning, state-run media were reporting a death toll approaching 10,000 across the worst-hit southwestern Sichuan province, but rescue teams were still struggling to reach towns cut off by smashed roads and landslides in the mountainous earthquake zone. (article 6)
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- ABC News: China's Misery Grows With 15,000 Dead, 26,000 Entombed and 14,000 Missing (ABCNews, 05/14/2008, 336 words)
- Powerful Quake Ravages China, Killing Thousands (nytimes.com, 05/13/2008, 668 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 05/13/2008, 1678 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 05/15/2008, 1157 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 05/15/2008, 1110 words)
- At least 10,000 dead as landslides seal off towns and block rescuers (timesonline.co.uk, 05/13/2008, 847 words)
- China anger over 'shoddy schools' (BBC News, 05/14/2008, 598 words)
- China quake shows flaws in building boom (sfgate.com, 05/14/2008, 1216 words)
- IOC offers support to China after devastating quake (cbc.ca, 05/12/2008, 305 words)
- China bloggers cook up quake conspiracies (timesonline.co.uk, 05/13/2008, 491 words)
- Eyewitness: 'Constant aftershocks' (BBC News, 05/13/2008, 719 words)
- ABC News: Quake Death Toll Nears 12,000; Region Is 'Completely Devastated' (ABCNews, 05/13/2008, 508 words)
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