China's official Xinhua news agency says nearly 15,000 people have died in the devastating earthquake that hit the country's south-western Sichuan province on Monday.
That figure is still expected to rise as thousands more are still trapped in the rubble two days after the 7.9 quake Brown reacts to local election defeats ...
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China leaders confirmed in office ... struck, causing landslides and razing homes and whole villages. Poor weather has hampered aid efforts, and rescuers have been forced to trek to areas cut off by the quake damage and search through the rubble with their bare hands. China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is flying to the area near the epicentre to see relief work, having met survivors elsewhere. Troops have been mobilised and aid has been dropped to cut-off areas.
(Deutsche Welle)
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