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New survivors were plucked from the rubble Saturday as rescuers in China waged an increasingly desperate battle to save lives five days after a huge quake killed an estimated 50,000 people.
With towns and villages reduced to a mass of twisted metal and concrete, recovery teams used sniffer dogs and cutting equipment to try and find victims trapped under buildings across the southwestern province of Sichuan.
A German tourist was pulled out of the wreckage Saturday by soldiers after being buried for 114 hours, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.
The confirmed number of people killed by the 7.9 magnitude quake was 22,069 late Friday, with officials in Sichuan province saying another 14,000 remained buried.

But as foreign aid teams joined the rescue effort, search and rescue workers remained resolute in their mission to find survivors .

"Giving up is excluded from our dictionary," a rescue worker was quoted as saying by Xinhua, after a child was pulled ...

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