LONGTOUSHAN, China: Staring at the blades of a mechanical digger as it combed through the debris that entombs his only child, Zhao Dekun on Wednesday faced the grim reality that time has run out.

“It has been four days. I don’t have any hope now,” Zhao said, shaking his head with sorrow as he surveyed a huge pile of rubble in Longtoushan, the epicenter of a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck Sunday in China’s south–western Yunnan province.

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