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Huge Aftershock Rattles China

Posted May 16, 08 7:47 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – A powerful aftershock struck today near the epicenter of this week's earthquake, wreaking more havoc as China struggled to bury its dead and care for thousands of homeless and hungry survivors, Reuters reports. Rescuers continued their search amid the rubble, but hope dimmed as the official death toll rose to more than 22,000. It is expected to exceed 50,000.

The 5.5-magnitude aftershock caused more landslides, but casualties were unknown. President Hu Jintao, meanwhile, flew to the region to rally aid workers. "Quake relief work has entered into the most crucial phase," he told them. "We must make every effort, race against time and overcome all difficulties." In one bright spot, a nurse was pulled from the remains of a clinic where she had been trapped for 96 hours.

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A woman cries near the rubble of a collapsed building after her relative's dead body was found in Dujiangyan, southwest China's Sichuan Province Friday, May 16, 2008.   (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A rescuer arranges the schoolbags discovered from the debris of a primary school for the parents to claim in Shifang in southwest China's Sichuan province Thursday May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo)
Soldiers evacuate the victims at Jiguan Village of Huairen Township in earthquake-hit Chongzhou of southwest China's Sichuan province, Thursday, May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
Relatives of earthquake victims burn incense and candles as they pay their last tribute to the dead near the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province Thursday, May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Chinese women who are missing family members look at the bodies of dead students wrapped in plastic bags near a damaged school following Monday's powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake.   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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