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MIANYANG, China: New survivors were plucked from the rubble Saturday
as rescuers in China waged an increasingly desperate battle to save
lives five days after a huge quake killed an estimated 50,000
people. With towns and villages reduced to a mass of twisted metal
and concrete, recovery teams used sniffer dogs and cutting equipment
to try and find victims trapped under buildings across the
southwestern province of Sichuan. A German tourist was pulled out of
the wreckage Saturday by soldiers after being buried for 114 hours,
the state-run Xinhua news agency said. The confirmed number of
people killed by the 7.9 magnitude quake was 22,069 late Friday,
with officials in Sichuan province saying another 14,000 remained
buried.
-- AFP
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