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Death toll in China quake rises to nearly 12,000 (AP)

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, locals gather on a campus in the earthquake-affected Beichuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The death toll from a powerful earthquake in China that toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants climbed Tuesday to about 10,000, while untold numbers remained trapped after the country's worst quake in three decades. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Xie)AP - A Chinese disaster relief official says the death toll has risen to nearly 12,000 following a massive earthquake that struck the country.

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