Survivers

A 6-year-old boy from a destroyed village waits to be evacuated in the back of a military truck in earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, May 16, 2008. [Agencies]

Liu Deyun, 56, is carried out by soldiers after being buried for 100 hours in a collapsed building at a chemical factory in the earthquake-hit Yinghua town of Deyang, Sichuan province, May 16, 2008. [Agencies]

A nurse and a soldier help a patient to cross a bridge in the city of Beichuan, about 150km (93 miles) north of Chengdu, in Sichuan province, May 16, 2008. [Agencies]

People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers carry a survivor from the ruins of a collapsed apartment block in the city of Beichuan, located around 150 km north of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province May 16, 2008. [Agencies]

An injured boy looks with a friend at photographs in a newspaper related to the earthquake at a centre for missing schoolchildren in the city of Mianyang, located around 100 km north of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province May 16, 2008. China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50,000. [Agencies]

A rescuer checks on Li Yi, 10, who was trapped under the ruins of a collapsed building at Miaoba primary school in earthquake-hit Beichuan county, about 99 miles northeast of the epicenter at Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, May 15, 2008. [Agencies]

A mother, right, holds her four-day-old baby in Nanba Town of Pingwu County, Southwest China's Sichuan Province Thursday, May 15, 2008. The baby was born on Sunday, a day before Monday's quake in Sichuan Province. [Xinhua]

Injured earthquake survivors receive medical treatment at a rescue center in Mianzhu county, one of the worst quake-hit areas in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 16, 2008. [chinadaily.com.cn/by Rong Xiandong in Mianzhu]

Earthquake survivors queue up to get food at a rescue center in Mianzhu county, one of the worst quake-hit areas in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 16, 2008. [chinadaily.com.cn/by Rong Xiandong in Mianzhu]

Earthquake survivors arrive at a rescue center in Mianzhu county, one of the worst quake-hit areas in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 16, 2008. [chinadaily.com.cn/by Rong Xiandong in Mianzhu]

A picture of a missing couple was posted on a notice board displaying the names of earthquake survivors at a hospital in Deyang. [Agencies]

Soldiers feed milk to Song Xinyi, a 3-year-old earthquake survivor, in earthquake-hit Beichuan County, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 14, 2008. Song was rescued after being buried in the ruins for more than 40 hours. [Xinhua]

A man seriously injured in Monday's deadly earthquake is treated at Huaxi Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan Province May 14, 2008 after being airlifted to the hospital from Wenchuan. 162 persons seriously injured in Wenchuan were airlifted to Chengdu on Wednesday. [Xinhua]

16-year-old Yang Man is treated at Huaxi Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan Province May 14, 2008 after being airlifted to the hospital from Wenchuan. 162 persons seriously injured in Wenchuan were airlifted to Chengdu on Wednesday. [Xinhua]

Fire fighters manage to remove the debris to rescue a trapped middle school student called Yang Hong in quake-stricken Beichuan County, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 15, 2008. Yang was rescued after being trapped for nearly 60 hours in the rubble. [Xinhua]

High-school student Yang Liu (R) is given a bottle of water by a rescuer as her legs are trapped under concrete in the rubble of a collapsed school in the township of Hanwang in Mianzhu city in Sichuan province May 14, 2008. Yang has been fed, given water and a white helmet as workers remove ruins brick by brick from around her and a crane pulled away slabs of concrete -- the remains of the school that parents said had around 800 students before Monday's quake hit. In front of Yang lies a dead body. [Agencies]

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