BEICHUAN, China (AP) — China said the toll of dead and missing from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 80000, while the government appealed

A man carries salvage past soldiers taking a break from recovery work in the earthquake-hit town of Hongbai in China's southwest Sichuan province.

The death toll from the earthquake in China's Sichuan province has increased to more than 51000, with another 30000 people missing.

China has said the death toll from the most devastating earthquake in three decades had reached 51151, with 29328 still missing.

A woman cries as she consoles a relative who survived the earthquake in the devastated Wenchuan county after they were air lifted to the Phoenix airbase in

Beijing - The official death toll in last week's earthquake in south-western China's Sichuan province surpassed 50000 Thursday, with more than 29000 still