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It wasn’t until they reached Yingxiu that it became clear how nightmarish it was.

Chinese rescue workers arrived on foot for the first time since Monday afternoon’s earthquake at the town where 10,000 people used to live.

Today, they discovered, it has a population of only 2,300. Everyone else is dead.

Across central China today military helicopters began dropping food and aid workers started to reach the hardest-hit villages, areas that had been isolated because roads had been wiped away in the three-minute-long, magnitude 7.9 earthquake.

The more villages are reached, the scale of devastation escalates for China’s worst natural disaster in more than 30 years.

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I was reading the paper this morning while at work and the photos of the news about the incident that occurred yesterday in China that was struck by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake trying to rescue the victims that were underneath a pile of fallen hospital building. Other’s were heard begging for help and others were trying to break free. The death toll in Sichuan alone had exceeded 12,000 as of Tuesday evening, with more than 26,000 injured and at least 9,400 buried in debris, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, quoting a senior provincial official. The earthquake was even felt in Vietnam.

It is so depressing for the bereaved of the ones who died and for the world.