The worst earthquake in China for over 30 years kills nearly 9,000 in one province alone and injures thousands more. A powerful earthquake has shaken southwest China, killing nearly 9,000 people in populous Sichuan province, and injuring thousands more, state media said, as hundreds of children remained trapped in at least eight collapsed schools. Thousands were killed in Beichuan county of mountainous Sichuan province after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the region during the early afternoon on Monday (May 12), Xinhua news agency said, citing the local government. The death toll was expected to rise further as authorities and rescue teams made contact with the worst-hit areas of Sichuan, where phone lines have been cut off since the quake struck. Thousands of army troops and paramilitary People's Armed Police carrying medical supplies were headed to the region, state television said. On Monday evening state media showed 180 special rescue workers from China International Search...
Survivors struggle to deal with their losses in earthquake-battered south-western Sichuan province, while China faces a massive task of dealing with the 4.8 million people made homeless. Rescue...
Residents of Deqing Country in southern China begin to clean up after major flooding, hoping to get back to a normal life. Residents in southern China are starting to clean up their homes and...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits China's earthquake-hit southwest, and hails the Chinese government's quick relief efforts when meeting with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. Chinese troops...
The death toll from China's deadliest earthquake in decades climbs to nearly 15,000, as tens of thousands of troops, firefighters and civilians race to save more than 25,000 people buried across a...
Hundreds of casualties from remote areas of Sichuan began to arrive in the southwestern province's capital of Chengdu on Wednesday (May 14) after China's most deadly earthquake in decades, but...
Premier Wen Jiabao toured earthquake-hit areas of China on Wednesday as United States donated 500,000 U.S. dollars for Chinese victims of earthquake and South Korea said it will provide one million...
As the death toll from China's deadliest earthquake in decades climbed to nearly 15,000, officials warned of potential calamities from broken rivers and dams strained to bursting point. State media...
More than 8,500 people died when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday, trapping adults and children under the rubble of collapsed schools and office buildings, and...
The China earthquake death toll is likely to be tens of thousands after state media said nearly 19,000 were buried under rubble in one city alone. Japan responds to China's request for quake...
China opens a new temporary school for children displaced by a massive earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan. It's a struggle for a new beginning as Chinese authorities try to cope...
