China quake toll above 50,000 – Vhinese military still cannot access 70% of the devastation
Akash Sengupta
May 13, 2008

The landscape and terrain is the most difficult especially when mother nature combines two nsaty ingredients of adversse fate for common people of China. The Chinese military and the Government are tryting their best to access the area of severe devastation. Official Chinese count of devastation puts the death toll to 16,000 but in reality the count may approach far above 100,00 once full assessment is made possible by mother nature.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who flew to Sichuan on Monday evening, urged the public to have "composure, confidence and courage" in the face of the catastrophe.

As of 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake had climbed to 11,921, according to the ad hoc headquarters of the disaster relief headed by Premier Wen. Of the dead, 11,608 were in Sichuan.

Wenchuan County, the epicenter, has reported 57 confirmed deaths and about 60,000 residents have yet to be reached.

"I am so worried! So worried!" He Biao, a government official with the Aba Autonomous Prefecture of Tibetan and Qiang nationalities, Sichuan Province, exclaimed to Xinhua over the phone. Wenchuan forms part of the prefecture. Wenchuan and neighboring areas are situated in the steep hills north of Sichuan's provincial capital, Chengdu.

Attempts to reach the epicenter "via land, air and water were all thwarted" by a combination of transport and communications problems and rain, said an official with the Sichuan provincial relief headquarters.

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