MIANYANG, China (Reuters) - China's struggle to overcome earthquake devastation has been compounded by conflicting official claims about plans to evacuate 1.3 million people in a city threatened by a swelling "quake lake".
Facing outrage from grieving parents, the government, meanwhile, vowed to punish anyone responsible for school buildings that collapsed in the quake, killing thousands of children.
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