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MIANYANG, China - Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China"s devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. The death toll of more than 12,000 was certain to rise as the buried were found.
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Rescuers worked through a steady rain searching wrecked towns across hilly stretches of Sichuan province that were stricken by Monday"s magnitude-7.9 quake, China"s deadliest in three decades. Tens of thousands spent a second night outdoors, some sleeping under plastic sheeting, others bused to a stadium in the city of Mianyang, on the edge of the disaster area.
As night fell, a first wave of 200 soldiers entered the town of Wenchuan, near the epicenter, trudging across ruptured roads and mudslides, state television said.
Soldiers continued their efforts on Wednesday morning, and Xinhua said another 800 armed police arrived.
The rescue workers warned that the toll would likely jump as their efforts continued, and Xinhua reported Wednesday that 7,700 people were killed in Wenchuan, but it wasn"t clear if that figure was included in the larger toll of 12,000.
Helicopters were preparing to fly in relief supplied if the weather permitted. The road into Wenchuan was still blocked by rocks and mud slides, holding up rescue work.
Many survivors were dependent on the government for food and water, and were anxious for word about missing relatives.
In An Xian, on the road to Beichuan, a hard-hit area on the edge of the quake"s epicenter, a group of survivors huddled by the road in a makeshift tent to protect them from the rain.
Government buses have carried some survivors out of Beichuan, but Li Zizhong, a 38-year-old farmer, said he had not heard from his relatives there yet.
"Who knows what happened to them," Li said. "All we need is a little something to eat. I"m just happy to be alive."
Li and a friend, Zhang Mingfu, 44, had built a wood and plastic shelter with a straw floor where about 30 family members spent the night. Their destroyed homes were in the background.
"I feel lucky. It"s the people in the mountains that we are worrying about, they are our relatives," Zhang said.
Authorities had blocked the road to Beichuan to regular traffic to allow rescue vehicles access.
Price gouging was evident in the nearby city of Mianyang, where some stores were open. A package of instant noodles normally selling for 35 cents now costs $1.15.
Both Beichuan and Mianyang are in a triangle area close to the epicenter of the quake just north of the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu
Street lamps were switched on in Mianyang on Tuesday night, but all the buildings were dark and deserted after the government ordered people out of them for fear of aftershocks. Security guards were posted at apartment blocks to keep people out.
The devastation and ramped-up rescue across large, heavily populated region of farms and factory towns strained local governments. Food dwindled on the shelves of the few stores that remained open. Gasoline was scarce, with long lines outside some stations and pumps marked "empty."
Buses carried survivors away from Beichuan, which was flattened — a few buildings standing amid piles of rubble in a narrow valley, according to CCTV video.
More than 10,000 people from there and surrounding areas packed Mianyang"s Jiuzhou Gymnasium, with empty water bottles, boxes of instant noodles and cigarette cartons littering the ground.
"I saw rocks and earth rolling down the hill, and they destroyed whatever they hit below," said a farmer who only gave his surname, Chen, from the village of Leigu near Beichuan. "There"s nothing I can do about this. It"s all in the hands of the government."
In the provincial capital of Chengdu, FM-91.4 all-traffic radio station operated around the clock, reading text messages sent by survivors of stricken areas to let relatives know they are alive.
State television Wednesday broadcast touching scenes of Premier Wen Jiabao at the Mianyang stadium comforting children whose parents were killed in the earthquake.
"The government will take care of you." Wen told a girl about 9. "Since you survived, you must live your life well." The child cried and covered her face.
The government"s high-gear response aimed to reassure Chinese while showing the world it was capable of handling the disaster and was ready for the Aug. 8-24 Olympics in Beijing. Although the government said it welcomed outside aid, officials said that the assistance would be confined to money and supplies, not to foreign personnel.
On Tuesday, Wen crisscrossed the disaster area to oversee relief efforts, the official Xinhua news agency cited the Defense Ministry as saying that some 20,000 soldiers and police arrived in the disaster area, with 30,000 more on the way by plane, train, truck and on foot.
"We will save the people," Wen said through a bullhorn to survivors in Shifang, where two chemical plants collapsed and buried more than 600 people, according to CCTV. "As long as the people are there, factories can be built into even better ones, and so can the towns and counties."
The Finance Ministry said it had allocated $123 million in quake aid.
At the world famous Wolong National Nature Reserve, all 86 pandas were reported safe late Tuesday in the first word since communications with the preserve were cut off. A group of 31 British tourists panda-watching in the preserve also returned safely to Chengdu, the Foreign Ministry said, although there was no word on 12 missing Americans on a World Wildlife Fund tour.
Still, prospects for survivors in the quake zone dwindled. Only 58 people were pulled from demolished buildings across the quake area so far, China Seismological Bureau spokesman Zhang Hongwei told Xinhua.
Weeping parents held a vigil in a steady outside a collapsed school in the town of Juyuan, where more than 900 high school students were initially trapped. Only one survivor has been found: a girl pulled free by rescue team.
Bowing to public calls, Beijing Olympics organizers scaled down the boisterous torch relay, saying Wednesday"s leg in the southeastern city of Ruijin would begin with a minute of silence and more somber ceremonies. People along the route for the torch, which next month is scheduled to arrive in quake-hit areas, would be asked for donations, an organizing committee spokesman said.
In the areas around Mianyang, more than 7,300 people died and 18,000 more were believed trapped in rubble, most in Beichuan. Amid the rubble, CCTV showed the six-story Beichuan Hotel listing, half its first story collapsed. Medical teams tried to treat the wounded in dirt courtyards littered with broken furniture and concrete.
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Sichuan earthquake death toll exceeds 12,000
A senior official with the Sichuan Provincial government said Tuesday the death toll in the province has exceeded 12,000, and is still rising.
Li Chengyun, vice governor of Sichuan, said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon that the death toll was based on incomplete figures tallied by 4:00 p.m. Tuesday. He said another 26,206 people were injured, and more than 9,400 people are buried in debris.
Li also provided a breakdown of the death toll, including 161 in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, 7,395 in Mianyang City, 2,648 in Deyang City, 959 in the provincial capital Chengdu and 700 in Guangyuan City. Other casualties were reported in cities including Ya"an, Ziyang and the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
The earthquake, which centered on the province"s Wenchuan County at 2:28 p.m. Monday, has left the province in chaos. More than 3.46 million houses were wracked, Li said.
Li said he was deeply saddened by the super earthquake. He called on both officials and the masses in Sichuan to fight the disaster and rescue themselves.
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最新伤亡人数统计(时实更新)
全国 汶川地震死亡人数超1.2万人(更新)
四川 死亡12012人，7841人失踪，收治26206人
绵阳市 死亡人数达到7395人 (其中北川县7千人死亡) 被埋18692人 茂县 死亡27人失踪4人
广安 1人死亡 广元 死亡700人 400多学生伤亡
德阳 2648人死亡7695人受伤(更新) 成都市 死亡人数达959人
都江堰市 聚源镇中学死亡人数已增至50余人 资阳市 15人死亡，86人受伤
眉山市 9人死亡，逾3000人受伤 中江县 5人死亡
甘孜州 死亡8人 阿坝州 死亡161人(汶川县伤亡情况仍在统计中)
内江 死亡4人 遂宁 死亡21人
雅安 死亡15人 巴中 死亡8人
南充 死亡15人 乐山 死亡7人
绵竹 清明、天池乡和金花镇两万人生死不明
重庆 遇难者已达11人，受灾人口共213.33万(更新)
梁平小学 死亡5人，掩埋20多人，100多人受伤
甘肃 甘肃死亡人数升至206人 2179人受伤(更新)
陇南市 173人死亡，2027人受伤
云南 死亡1人
昭通 1人死亡，9人受伤
陕西 103人死亡，893人受伤(更新)
西安 死亡22人 汉中 死亡35人
安康 死亡3人 宝鸡 死亡30人
咸阳 死亡13人
河南 2人死亡，5人受伤(更新)
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A powerful earthquake struck Western China on Monday, toppling thousands of homes, factories and offices, trapping students in schools, and killing at least 10,000 people, the countryu2019s worst natural disaster in three decades.
The quake, which was estimated preliminarily to have had a magnitude of 7.9, ravaged a mountainous region outside Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, just after lunchtime Monday, destroying 80 percent of structures in some of the towns and small cities near its epicenter, Chinese officials said. Its tremors were felt as far away as Vietnam and set off another, smaller quake in the outskirts of Beijing, 900 miles away.
Landslides, power failures and fallen mobile phone towers left much of the affected area cut off from the outside world and limited information about the damage. But snapshots of concentrated devastation suggested that the death toll that could rise significantly as rescue workers reached the most heavily damaged areas.
In the town of Juyuan, south of the epicenter in the city of Wenchuan, a school collapsed, trapping 900 students in the rubble and setting off a frantic search for survivors that stretched through the night. Two chemical factories in Shifang were destroyed, spilling 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia, officials told Chinese state media.
The destruction of a single steam turbine factory in the city of Mianzhu buried “several thousand” people, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday morning.
The quake was already Chinau2019s biggest natural disaster since another earthquake leveled the city of Tangshan in eastern China in 1976, leaving 240,000 people dead and posing a severe challenge to the ruling Communist Party, which initially tried to cover up the catastrophe.