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A nurse helps a trapped youth trapped in tangled debris of a collapsed building in southwest China's Sichuan Province.  Rescue workers sifted through tangled debris of toppled schools and homes today 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.

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1:49 p.m. | The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades. Above, a nurse helps a youth trapped in debris of a collapsed building in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

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