An earthquake survivor at a hospital in Chengdu.
A collapsed apartment block in Dujiangyan. Tens of thousands of people across southwest China remained buried beneath rubble on Tuesday as rescue workers struggled to reach areas cut off by a powerful earthquake that has left thousands dead and hundreds of thousands of others injured or homeless. 
As a steady rain fell throughout the day, emergency workers struggled to pull survivors and bodies from flattened buildings in the few towns accessible to heavy rescue machinery. At left, rescuers pulled an injured woman from a collapsed building in Beichuan.
Rescue workers carried an injured woman out of the debris of collapsed buildings in Beichuan. The central government, which said it was spending $120 million on rescue efforts, has sent 50,000 soldiers to the disaster zone.
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