China’s Communist Party urged rescuers to redouble efforts to find people trapped in the rubble of a deadly earthquake before the end of a three-day window when victims’ chances of survival decline rapidly.
Vice Premier Wang Yang, touring the quake zone in Sichuan province, gathered officials, relief workers and soldiers under a tent and told them to “save as many people as possible” before the end of the 72-hour window since the temblor struck at 8 a.m. on April 20, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The earthquake, measured at magnitude 6.6 by the U.S. Geological Survey, had killed at least 188 people and injured almost 12,000 as of 2 p.m. local time today, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Wang and other top Chinese officials have called for rapid action amid concern that aftershocks and damaged roads could slow rescue efforts. The quake was in the same region as one in 2008 that killed about 87,000 people.
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