BEIJING: China on Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake, which killed more than 80,000 but some said quest­ions re­mained over the thousands of children who died as their schools collapsed.

The 8.0 magnitude earth­quake struck the southwestern province of Sichuan on the afternoon of May 12, 2008, with its epicenter at Wenchuan county. Another 4.45 million were hurt in China’s worst quake in more than three decades.

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