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Chinese Families Trek For Days To Find Quake Victims [1]

On the buckled road to the epicentre of China's deadliest earthquake in decades, the stream of refugees fleeing collapsed homes and unburied corpses is almost outnumbered by a flow of anxious families trekking in. The town of Wenchuan and hundreds of smaller settlements have been cut off from traffic and telephones since the massive tremor on Monday which Beijing say may have killed more than 50,000.

Publication Date: 
19/05/2008
Planet Ark (Australia) [2]
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Natural Disasters [3], Earthquakes [4], China [5]
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