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Rescue operations underway in quake-hit area

(Xinhua) Updated: 2012-09-08 21:59
Rescue operations underway in quake-hit area

Volunteers from Southwest China's Sichuan province distribute free water and food in the quake-hit Luozehe Village, one of the hardest-hit areas, Yiliang County, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Sept 8, 2012. More than 10,000 rescuers have arrived in Yiliang to take part in the quake rescue. Eighty people have been confirmed dead as of Saturday noon following multiple earthquakes that struck Yunnan province on Friday, local authorities said. [Photo/Xinhua]

A 40-year-old man in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province who claimed to be a poet who was climbing the barren mountain in search of creative inspiration, somehow became stranded on a cliff on Thursday.

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