The PLA & Chinese "first responders" is on the job for earthquake relief!
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BEICHUAN, CHINA - MAY 14: (CHINA OUT) Soldiers work to rescue injured people trapped in ruins May 14, 2008 in Beichuan, China. A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province May 12, killing at least 10,000 people. The death toll is expected to rise as there is no definite estimate of the number of people trapped under mounds of concrete. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/***** Images)
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Rescue workers from the People's Armed Police struggle to remove injured pupils from the Beichuan High School building which collapsed during the 12 May earthquake in Beichuan county Sichuan, southwest China in the early hours of 14 May 2008. The town of Beichuan is one of dozens devastated by the quake, 7.8 on the Richter scale, whose death toll is only slowly coming to light as heavy rain and destroyed roads have prevented access to the worst afflicted areas until now. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao flew down to the stricken area hours after the disaster and has remained on site speaking to the afflicted, including those still trapped in rubble and has postponed all official engagements to concentrate on leading disaster relief as the official death toll creeps past the 15,000 mark
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The Chinese Sea Fleet Marine Brigade of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) prepare to send 760 officers and soldiers to the Sichuan earthquake disaster site, at the Nansha Islands, Hainan, China, 14 May 2008. The 12 May 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan province that measured 7.8 on the Richter scale has now killed an estimated figure of over 12,000 people, according to state media 14 May 2008
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A helicopter of the Chinese People's LIberation Army (PLA) in Nanjing prepares to leave for the earthquake disaster site on an air drop and rescue mission in Sichuan province, China, 13 May 2008. An earthquake 12 May 2008 in Wenchuan, Sichuan province that measured 7.8 on the Richter scale has killed an estimated figure of nearly 10,000 people, according to state media 13 May 2008
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A soldier carries a wounded child as she is rescued after an earthquake in Beichuan, Sichuan province May 13, 2008. China poured more troops into the earthquake-ravaged province of Sichuan on Wednesday to quicken a search for survivors as time ran out for thousands of people still buried under rubble and mud.
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Soldiers take out a man rescued from debris in Dujiangyan, the closest city to the epicenter of the earthquake, in southwest China's Sichuan province 13 May 2008. The official death toll from the quake is now 12,012 and at least 18,600 are still buried in rubbles across counties
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Eight-month pregnant Zhang Xiaoyan, 34, is pulled alive from an apartment that partially collapsed following Monday's powerful earthquake in Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan province
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Soldiers evacuate earthquake survivors by helicopters at the Xuankou Township in the epicenter Wenchuan of southwest China's Sichuan province Wednesday, May 14, 2008. As help began to arrive in some of the hardest-to-reach areas, some victims trapped for more than two days under collapsed buildings were still being pulled out alive. The official death toll rose Wednesday to 14,866, Xinhua said, but it was not immediately clear if that number included the 7,700 reported dead in Yingxiu. In Sichuan province alone, another 25,788 people were buried and 1,405 were missing, provincial vice governor Li Chengyun said, according to Xinhua
