玉树地震-NBC: China quake kills over hundreds

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Buddhist monks watch a mass cremation on a hillside in Jiegu, Yushu County, on Saturday. April 17. China began the mass cremation of hundreds of earthquake victims over sanitation fears as hopes dimmed of finding further survivors among the more than 400 people still missing.

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A Chinese girl cries as she led away by her relatives during a mass cremation for victims of Wednesday's earthquake in Yushu County, northwest China's Qinghai province, Saturday, April 17.

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A woman sits near her collapsed house while a rescuer leads a search dog in Jiegu, Yushu county, in western China's Qinghai province, on Friday, April 16. The region was struck Wednesday by a series of quakes, the strongest was measured at 6.9 by the U.S. Geological Survey. More than 1,100 people have been reported dead, and the toll is expected to rise as rescue and recovery efforts proceed.

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A Tibetan Buddhist monk leads the way as a man carries a young girl who was trapped for two days in Yushu county.

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Tibetan Buddhist monks serve congee to hungry earthquake survivors in Jiegu.

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The hand of an ethnic Tibetan child who died during the earthquake protrudes from a cloth near a monastery in Jyegu.

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A satellite image shows Yushu on April 15. Relief workers estimate that 70 to 90 percent of the town's wood-and-mud houses collapsed when the earthquakes hit.

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Tibetans embrace in the ruins of Jiegu. With shelter in the thin air a desperate problem, Chinese authorities are bringing in thousands of tents and other supplies.

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People stand on collapsed buildings while rescuers work in Jiegu.

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An injured survivor waits for medical attention in Yushu.

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Rescuers carry an earthquake victim wrapped in a blanket in Yushu county.

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Earthquake victims wait to be transferred to Xining for medical treatment at Batang Airport on April 15.

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Collapsed and badly damaged buildings have left many of the residents of Yushu without shelter.

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People search the rubble of destroyed buildings in Yushu, Qinghai province.

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An ethnic Tibetan family rests on the rubble of their collapsed home in Jiegu, Qinghai province. 

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Tibetan monks sit on a hillside to offer prayers during a mass cremation for victims of Wednesday's earthquake in Yushu County in west China's Qinghai province on Saturday, April 17.

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Praying Tibetan monks are distorted by the heat of the mass cremation for victims on April 17.

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Ethnic Tibetans injured by the earthquake rest on a plane in the town of Jiegu before taking off for Xining, where they will receive better medical care, on April 17.

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A health worker disinfects the ruins in the town of Jiegu in quake-hit Yushu county in west China's Qinghai province on April 17.

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Hundreds of local people reach for food aid in the town of Jiegu in Yushu County, Qinghai province on April 16.

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Rescuers continue searching for survivors among the debris in Yushu County on April 16 following an earthquake in western China.