Wednesday, May 14, 2008

My heart broken

It's already the third day (11.00am 14 May) China's quake tolls soar with more than 12,000 dead.
When I saw these photos, my tears dropped.

In this photo provided by Xinhua news agency, rescuers search for survivors on a collapsed road in Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday May 13, 2008. Rescue workers sifted through tangled debris of toppled schools and homes Tuesday for thousands of victims buried or missing after China's worst earthquake in three decades, as the death toll soared to more than 12,000 people in the hardest-hit province alone.

An injured man whose leg is trapped receives care on the debris of a collapsed building at Juyuan Middle School after an earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan.


A resident walks past covered dead bodies along the street after an earthquake in Dujiangyan City, 50km (31 miles) from Chengdu in Sichuan province May 13, 2008.




Chinese rescuers evacuate a survivor from a collapsed building in Dujiangyan, in southwest China's Sichuan province. China's biggest earthquake for a generation left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under the rubble of broken communities Tuesday, unleashing a desperate nationwide relief effort




A mother mourns near the body of her child and other school children who were killed as a school building collapsed.



A woman survivor tries to escape from the debris of a collapsed building.


An arm of a victim is seen amidst the debris of a collapsed building.

In this photo provided by Xinhua news agency, atrapped youth from Beichuan middle school waits for rescuers in the earthquake-hit region of Beichuan County, about 160 Kilometers northeast of the epicenter in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday May 13, 2008.


[all photos taken from Yahoo-News; AP (Associated press); AFP and REUTERS]

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