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China Death Toll Breaks 51K

Posted May 22, 08 7:59 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – China’s official earthquake death toll has today topped 51,000, with almost 300,000 injured, and another 29,000 missing, CNN reports. Meanwhile, donations from home and abroad tallied $3 billion, while Beijing pledged another $10 billion to reconstruction efforts, including $3.6 billion for rescue and relief work.

“Since 1998, this is the first time the Chinese government has opened up an issue like this to the international community,” said a UN official. The government called for more than 3.3 million additional tents, saying it “welcomed” foreign aid, the AP reports. Relief efforts continued with three unlikely rescues, including a 102-year-old woman who was pulled from rubble.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, blue tents set up for residents who lost their homes in the earthquake on May 12 are seen on Tuesday, May 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ren Junchuan)
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, workers prepare mobile tent air conditioners to be transported to quake-hit areas in southwest and northwest China on Tuesday, May 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang Jiaguo)
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, children attend class at a camp school in the quake-hit Nanba Town of Pingwu County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhou Wenjie)
A woman of the Chinese community in Romania lights candles for those killed in the May 12 quake in the Sichuan province in China, during a memorial service in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday.   (AP Photo/Andreea Balaurea/Mediafax)
Wang Youqun, 60, is fed by nurses at a hospital in China's southwest Sichuan province after she was rescued 195 hours after the quake, in this image made from television Wednesday, May 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Phoenix TV via APTN)
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