CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Nearly 10,000 people were killed by the earthquake that hammered southwest China, officials said on Tuesday as rescuers struggled to reach the worst-hit areas where many more may have died.
Rescuers worked frantically through the night, pulling bodies from schools, homes, factories and hospitals demolished by the 7.9 magnitude quake, which rolled from a mountainous area of Sichuan province across much of China on Monday afternoon.
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