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The search for survivors of China’s worst earthquake in 30 years became moreurgent today as the predicted death toll rose to 50,000 and Chineseofficials admitted that finding anyone still alive would be a “miracle”.
Zhang Zhoushu, the vice director of the state-run China Earthquake DisasterPrevention Centre, said: "As the destruction was severe and people wereburied somewhere deep below ground, there's real trouble.
"If there are some survivors under such conditions, it would be a matterof luck or a miracle."
More than 19,500 people have been confirmed dead after Monday’s 7.9-magnitudeearthquake in southwest China, a rise of 5,000 on yesterday's officialfigure.
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