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Rescue resources thin in China

A Chinese man is trapped inside debris in earthquake-hit Beichuan County, about 100 miles northeast of the epicenter of Wenchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday. The official death toll after Monday's powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake is now about 15,000, and tens of thousands remained buried or missing. Rescuers are just now starting to reach those in the hardest-to-reach areas because of the widespread devastation from the quake.

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