A body lies in the rubble of a building in Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan City
The official death toll in China's deadly earthquake has risen to more than 8,000 and some fear the figure could rise into the tens of thousands. Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier has arrived in the area and said the situation is more severe than first thought. Thousands remain trapped in the rubble of buildings collapsed by the quake which is the worst in over 30 years. In 1976 an earthquake in Tangshan killed at least 655,000 [Tangshan earthquake]. Xinhua has put the death toll in this latest disaster at 7,651. Meanwhile CNN and other Western media report the toll as at least 8,600.
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