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China quake death toll reaches 15,000

Last Modified: 14 May 2008
By: Sue Turton

More than 15,000 people are now thought to have died in China after Monday's earthquake.

Fifty thousand troops have been dispatched to the south-western province of Sichuan as the search for survivors among the devastation continues.

In Beichuan, one of the worst hit areas, people have been gathering to formally identify recovered bodies.

Seventy miles away in Dujiangyan City rescue workers hampered by rain and mudslides are still searching for survivors beneath the rubble.

At one school in Qingchuan City 850 students are still thought to be trapped.

And in Mianzhu around 500 people have been pulled out alive from several crushed buildings.