Wenchuan Earthquake in Pictures

Posted by | May 12, 2008

Close to 9000 people are reported dead after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake centered in Wenchuan, Sichuan. Read here for the latest updates. Below are some images of the devastation.

From AP news:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm31V_U89Hg&eurl=http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=China]

From CCTV:

A student at Sichuan University took this footage from his dorm room at 2:29 pm:

From The Telegraph:More video clips on sina.com here.

From CCTV:

Photos are from dwnews.com, wenxuecity.com and netease.com:

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