Sichuan toll tops 70,000 as mud traps rescuers
20/5/08
More than 71,000 people are dead, buried or missing in south-west China’s Sichuan province after last week’s earthquake, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the top provincial leader as saying yesterday. The number of people confirmed killed in the province as of late Sunday is 32,173, Sichuan Communist Party chief Liu Qibao said. Another 9509 people were buried and 29,418 others were missing, Mr Liu said. The new toll was announced as China came to a standstill at the start of three days of mourning for the victims.
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