Rescuers sent back from earthquake

Rescuers in earthquake-hit China continued to pull bodies from collapsed buildings as a specialist British team was refused permission to join the operation.

Five days after the 7.9-magnitude quake, the official death toll reached almost 29,000, with 148,000 soldiers and police, involved in the relief operation.

But there were signs that survivors may still be clinging to life, buried under tons of rubble.

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