Low supplies slow China earthquake rescue efforts

Friday, April 16, 2010

JIEGU, China -- Earthquake survivors shivered through a second night outdoors in a remote Tibetan corner of western China with rescuers fighting altitude sickness and dealing with a lack of supplies as the death toll rose to 760.

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