Earthquake toll up but survivors defy odds
Rescuers continued to find survivors buried in debris yesterday even as the death toll climbed to 2,039 on the sixth day since a devastating earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province, leaving another 195 still missing. The magnitude-7.1 quake, which struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu last Wednesday, left 12,135 injured, 1,434 of them in a serious condition, a spokesman for the rescue headquarters told a press conference. Two Tibetan women and a small girl were pulled out alive from rubble yesterday.