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Nearly 12,000 dead in China quake

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 11:51 AM
The Associated Press and 680News staff

The death toll rose to nearly 12,000 after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit central China on Monday, in the country's worst quake in three decades.

The powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools ...

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