China Quake leaves 18,000 buried
in one city in China

Official temblor death toll tops 12,000,
but figure likely to rise

See slide show of China earthquake:
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13 May 08 - The official Xinhua News Agency said the death toll exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province alone, and 18,645 were still buried in debris in the city of Mianyang, near the epicenter of Monday's massive, 7.9-magnitude quake.

The quake was centered just north of the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu in central China.

Just east of the epicenter, 1,000 students and teachers were killed or missing at a collapsed high school in Beichuan county — a six-story building reduced to a pile of rubble about two yards high, according to Xinhua. Xinhua said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan alone.

At another leveled school in Dujiangyan, 900 students were feared dead.

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