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China Earthquake Death Toll Jumps to 1,144

China Earthquake Death Toll Jumps to 1,144
# 17 April 2010 07:53 (UTC +04:00)
State media on Friday reported that another 417 people remain missing—as rescuers neared the end of the 72-hour period viewed as best for finding people alive. They continued to dig for survivors in the rubble, often by hand. Hundreds of the bodies were being prepared for a mass cremation Saturday morning. Genqiu, a 22-year-old monk, said it was impossible to perform traditional sky burials for all. Tibetan sky burials involve chopping a body into pieces and leaving it on a platform to be devoured by vultures. Relief workers have estimated that 70 percent to 90 percent of the town’s wood-and-mud houses collapsed when the earthquakes hit Yushu county, in the western province of Qinghai, Wednesday morning. The strongest of the quakes was measured at magnitude 6.9 by the U.S. Geological Survey and 7.1 by China’s earthquake administration.
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