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Friday, 8 August 2008
Monday, 19 May 2008
Nationwide silence
China has begun three days of mourning for the victims of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province
Flags are flying at half-mast and at 14:28 a nationwide silence will be observed to mark exactly a week since the earthquake struck.
Saturday, 17 May 2008
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Continuing aftershocks have hampered attempts to deliver aid, and many affected areas are no longer accessible by road.
TW rescue team
Members of the Japanese rescue team carry the body of a victim at Qiaozhuang Town of Qingchuan County in the quake-stricken southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 17, 2008. Japanese earthquake rescuers found two corpses in a collapsed six-floor building in Qiaozhuang at 7:25 am after 16 hours rescue operation.ue team
Russian rescue team
A 6-year-old boy from a destroyed village waits to be evacuated in the back of a military truck in earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, May 16, 2008
Singaporean relief team
Saturday 17 May : Lin Minhui, Singapore consul in Chengdu, capital city of southwest China's Sichuan Province, told China.org.cn by telephone that a Singaporean rescue team had arrived at Chengdu airport at 7:30 pm Friday 16th, and had reached Shifang City by 10:00 pm the same evening
Yingxiu Township, Wenchuan County
Sniffer dogs
Chinese President Hu Jintao
Premier Wen Jiabao & Chinese President Hu Jintao (R)
Students holding candles form a shape meaning love embracing Wenchuan of southwest China's Sichuan Province
Aerial view of badly stricken Yingxiu Town
Earthquake victims are seeking for their missing relatives
Looking for missing relatives
Beichuan, Sichuan province May 13, 2008
Sichuan
China quake victims flee 'flood'
There has been panic in the quake-hit Chinese city of Beichuan after reports a river had burst its bank sparked fears the entire city could be flooded.
The BBC's Paul Danahar in Beichuan says there was a stampede as thousands of people fled to higher ground.
The whole city has been evacuated, forcing the suspension of all rescue efforts, our correspondent says.
Beichuan is close to the epicentre of Monday's devastating quake in which it is feared about 50,000 people died.
On Saturday the number of confirmed deaths rose to 28,881 and the Chinese authorities say that about five million people have been made homeless by the disaster.
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Our correspondent in Beichuan says the city went from a scene of rescue and relief into mayhem.
"Everybody just ran - rescuers, army relief teams, medical workers and locals - and people who were in the process of being rescued had to be left behind.
"We were in the process of filming a man about to be pulled out after hours of digging and the rescue team had to abandon him and run."
Our correspondent has now returned to the heart of the city after the authorities said that though the river had burst its banks the city was not under threat from the water, but the majority of people are remaining on the surrounding hillsides.
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"It is not surprising," our correspondent says. "This entire community has been shaken to its core, they are surrounded by unstable buildings which threaten to topple at any moment, and the people have been deeply traumatised by what has happened."
The Chinese government has organised a massive search and rescue effort, which has garnered some success.
On Saturday, 33 people were dug out of the rubble in Beichuan, China's official Xinhua news agency reported, they include a 52-year-old man who was pulled free after 117 hours buried in debris.
And in the hard-hit county of Wenchuan a German tourist was pulled from rubble having been buried for 114 hours.
Mass graves
Rescue teams from South Korea, Singapore and Russia have joined Japanese and Taiwanese experts taking part in the operation.
The specialist teams are equipped with sniffer dogs, and fibre-optic cameras and heat sensors to detect people buried under the rubble.
But the number of people being pulled out alive are few and increasingly it is dead bodies which are being retrieved.
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BBC reporter at the scene
The authorities have resorted to burying the bodies in mass graves in an effort to prevent disease.
People in the quake zone are being told to wear face masks and disinfectant teams are out in force.
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Chengdu says that five days on China's efforts are now squarely focused on getting help to those who survived the earthquake.
Rubble from destroyed buildings is being taken away and streets are being cleared.
In some of the worst hit areas, people now have tents, fresh water, and something to eat. But in more inaccessible parts of the province, the authorities are still struggling to get help to survivors.
Race against time
China's president has urged rescuers throughout the earthquake-struck province of Sichuan to race to save lives.
Visiting the south-western province, Hu Jintao said "time is pressing" during the effort's "most crucial phase".
"Although the time for the best chance of rescue, the first 72 hours after an earthquake, has passed, saving lives remains the top priority of our work," Mr Hu told distraught relatives of those still missing.
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On Friday, Mr Hu toured Mianyang, one of the cities worst-hit by the 7.9-magnitude earthquake, where he viewed relief efforts and met rescue workers.
Correspondents say the Chinese president's presence in the region appears to reflect the level of government concern over the scale of the disaster.
Premier Wen Jiabao said the quake was the most destructive and widespread since the People's Republic was founded in 1949.
Its scale was greater than that of the Tangshan earthquake in 1976 which left 240,000 dead, he said.
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