16-May-2008, 03:18 AM
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Sadly, the bad news keeps rolling in.
International Herald Tribune: China: Quake death toll could reach 50,000
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While China's massive military-led recovery operation inched farther into regions cut off since Monday's quake in a wide area of Sichuan province, priorities began shifting from from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead, whose numbers the governemnt said could more than double to 50,000.
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The emergency headquarters of the State Council, China's Cabinet, said the confirmed death toll had reached 19,509 — up more than 4,500 from the day before. The council said deaths could rise to 50,000, state media reported.
The provincial government said more than 12,300 remained buried and another 102,100 were injured in Sichuan, where the quake was centered.
Experts said hope was quickly fading for anyone still caught in the wreckage of homes, schools, offices and factories that collapsed in the magnitude-7.9 quake, the most powerful in three decades in quake-prone China.
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