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• May 20: Nurses looks at Yuan Jiang, an earthquake survivor who was trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building for 72 hours in Beichuan, as he receives medical treatment at a hospital in Mianyang, Sichuan province, China.
• May 20: Yuan Jiang, an earthquake survivor who was trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building for 72 hours in Beichuan, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Mianyang, Sichuan province.
• May 20: Yuan Jiang, an earthquake survivor who was trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building for 72 hours in Beichuan, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Mianyang, Sichuan province.
• May 20: Yuan Jiang, an earthquake survivor who was trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building for 72 hours in Beichuan, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Mianyang, Sichuan province.
• May 20: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Ma Yuanjiang, a director of Yingxiu Bay Hydropower Plant, is carried by rescuers after being pulled from the debris of the plant in Yingxiu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. The 31-year-old survivor was found after being trapped for more than a week in the flattened power plant near the epicenter, the second case of someone being found alive a week after the May 12 earthquake struck Sichuan.
• May 20: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Ma Yuanjiang, a director of Yingxiu Bay Hydropower Plant, is carried by rescuers after being pulled from the debris of the plant in Yingxiu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. The 31-year-old survivor was found after being trapped for more than a week in the flattened power plant near the epicenter, the second case of someone being found alive a week after the May 12 earthquake struck Sichuan.
• May 20: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Ma Yuanjiang, a director of Yingxiu Bay Hydropower Plant, is carried by rescuers after being pulled from the debris of the plant in Yingxiu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. The 31-year-old survivor was found after being trapped for more than a week in the flattened power plant near the epicenter, the second case of someone being found alive a week after the May 12 earthquake struck Sichuan.
• May 20: President Bush signs a book of condolence for earthquake victims as first lady Laura Bush looks on at the Chinese Embassy in Washington.
• May 20: Chinese soldiers transport materials at a temporary base near an earthquake site during a rescue mission in Yinxiu, southwest China's Sichuan province.
• May 20: A policeman kills a dog with a pistol in an attempt to prevent an epidemic after the earthquake in Shifang, southwest China's Sichuan province.
• May 20: Cracks run on the top of quake-hit Zipingpu dam, near broken railings in Wenchuan, China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 20: Quake survivors receive rice porridge on ration outside a gymnasium where they are taking shelter in Mianyang, China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 20: Damaged buildings and debris are seen after the evacuation of local residents fearful of flooding risks and aftershocks in Mianyang, China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 20: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a South Korean rescuer disinfects the rubble of collapsed houses in Qingchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan province.
• May 20: Damaged buildings are seen on an unmanned road after the evacuation of local residents and rescuers fearful of flooding risks and aftershocks in Mianyang, China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 20: An earthquake survivor stands among the ruins of collapsed houses following last week’s earthquake in Leigu, near Beichuan, Sichuan province.
• May 20: Two Chinese girls comfort each other inside a temporary classroom set up for children affected by last week's earthquake in Chengdu, southwestern China's Sichuan province.
• May 20: A young child interrupts a singing lesson at a temporary classroom set up for children affected by last week's earthquake in Chengdu, southwestern China's Sichuan province.
• May 20: A farmer walks past a collapsed building at the Dawang Temple in Yinghua, Shifang county, in China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 20: Quake survivors burn incense as they pray toward their houses where their family members were killed in last week's powerful earthquake, as they are not allowed to return home due to possible aftershocks and flooding risks in Mianyang, China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 20: Quake survivors build a makeshift hut to shelter in Mianzhu, China's southwest Sichuan province. China said it was struggling to find shelter for many of the 5 million people whose homes were destroyed in last week's earthquake, while the confirmed death toll rose Tuesday to more than 40,000.
• May 20: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers search for survivors at a primary school in the quake-hit town of Jiulong, in Mianzhu, southwest China's Sichuan province.
• May 19: A local resident cries as he burns incense beside the body of his father, unseen, who was killed in Monday's earthquake, in Mianzhu, in China's southwest Sichuan province. China stood still and sirens wailed Monday to mourn the country's tens of thousands of earthquake victims, exactly one week after a powerful earthquake hit Sichuan province.
• May 19: A woman stands in the ruins of her home in An County, in China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 19: A man walks through the ruins of collapsed houses in An County, in China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 19: Pedestrians stand in silence near Hong Kong's Times Square shopping mall Monday as they take part in a national observance of silence for victims of the deadly earthquake in China last week.
• May 19: Local residents come to get their belongings out of a collapsed home, which was destroyed by Monday's earthquake, in Beichuan, in China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 18: In this photo distributed by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua, a girl donates money for the quake-plagued Chinese people in the help of her mother at a street in Guilin, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
• May 18: Chinese soldiers walk over the ruins of collapsed buildings as they search for earthquake victims in Beichuan, in China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 18: Members of a Japanese Disaster Relief Team are helped by a Chinese soldier, front, as they recover the body of an earthquake victim at the Beichuan Middle School, in Beichuan, in China's southwest Sichuan province.
• May 18: Parents grieve near the tomb of their young girl who died after a school dormitory collapsed following Monday's quake in Muyu, southwestern China's Sichuan province.
• May 18: A Chinese woman cries as she is helped to leave a site where her relatives were found dead in the rubbles following Monday's powerful earthquake in Shifang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
• May 16: Officials working with disinfecting equipment walk through giant rocks fallen after Monday's earthquake in Mianyang, in Sichuan province.
• May 16: Soldiers walk across a steel bridge to look for water in Yingxiu, a town near the quake's epicenter accessible only by foot and by boat in southwestern China's Sichuan province.
• May 16: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Hu Jintao, center right, inspects the earthquake-affected Beichuan Middle School in Mianyang city, Sichuan province.
• May 16: Rescue workers search for survivors among the debris of collapsed buildings in Beichuan County.
• May 16: Soldiers push a cart near a steel bridge support in Yingxiu, a town near Monday quake's epicenter accessible only on foot and by boat in southwestern China's Sichuan province.
• May 16: A Chinese man looks at a collapsed school as rescue team members get briefing before searching for survivors following Monday's powerful earthquake in Beichuan County.
• May 16: A rescuer searches for survivors at a collapsed school following Monday's powerful earthquake in Beichuan County.
• May 16: Rescue team members carry a victim from the rubble of a school following Monday's powerful earthquake in Beichuan County.
• May 16: Chinese soldiers walk near a partially collapsed building in Yingxiu, southwestern China's Sichuan province.
• May 16: A woman mourns near a collapsed school that buried dozens of children in Yingxiu, southwestern China's Sichuan province.
• May 16: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry a survivor rescued from the debris of a collapsed building 97 hours after Monday's earthquake in Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
• May 16: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a man is rescued from the debris of a collapsed building 97 hours after Monday's earthquake in Beichuan County, in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
• May 16: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry a survivor rescued from the debris of a collapsed building 97 hours after Monday's earthquake in Beichuan County, in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
• May 16: A local resident carries a baby on the way to a shelter after Monday's powerful earthquake in Mianyang, in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan.
• May 16: A Japanese rescue team searches for survivors at a collapsed hospital in Qingchuan County, in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan.