More survive China's week of horror

More survive China's week of horror
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Two women have been rescued in China after a week trapped in the rubble of
a collapsed building at a coal mine in Sichuan province, the official
Xinhua News ...
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Two women have been rescued in China after a week trapped in the rubble of a
collapsed building at a coal mine in Sichuan province, the official Xinhua News
Agency reported.

The news of survivors came as it emerged relief workers are being killed by
mudslides in some areas. China stood still and sirens wailed to mourn tens of
thousands of earthquake victims in the country's deadliest disaster in a
generation.

Construction workers, shopkeepers and bureaucrats across the bustling nation of
1.3 billion people paused for three minutes of tribute exactly one week after
the magnitude 7.9 quake hit central China. Air-raid sirens and the horns of cars
and buses sounded in memory of the dead, expected to surpass 50,000.

The confirmed death toll from the May 12 quake rose to 34,073, the State
Council, China's Cabinet, said. Another 5,260 remained buried in Sichuan and
29,418 were missing, the provincial government said, according to Xinhua.

Officials have said they expect final deaths in the disaster to exceed 50,000,
with more than 245,000 reported as injured.

In the quake area, more than 200 relief workers have been buried over the past
three days by mudslides while working to repair roads in Sichuan, Xinhua
reported.

An official confirmed there had been mudslides causing some deaths but gave no
details. "The total death toll is still being counted," said the official at the
Sichuan provincial Communications Department.

More potential landslides were predicted by the Central Meteorological
Observatory, with heavy rains forecast this week for some areas close to the
epicentre.

In an indication of the challenge in dealing with millions of homeless and
injured survivors, China said it would accept foreign medical teams and issued
an international appeal for tents.

Foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement that tents were a
priority "because many houses were toppled in the quake and because it is the
rainy season".
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