The Indeendent
AP and ReutersTuesday, 13 May 2008
The official death toll in the Chinese earthquake rose to nearly 12,000 today and 18,000 people are buried in quake-hit city of Mianyang.
A day after the 7.9 magnitude quake struck, state media said rescuers had reached the epicentre in Wenchuan county - cut off by the disaster and where the number of casualties was unknown.
But rain was impeding efforts and a group of paratroopers called off a mission to the area due to heavy storms.
Nearly 10,000 people died in Sichuan province alone and 300 others in other provinces and the mega-city of Chongqing with its surrounding rural areas, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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