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17-05-2008, 10:04 PM
The area in China devastated by last week's earthquake has been hit by another tremor measuring 6.1 magnitude.
http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1679748.jpg Residents flee buildings in Chengdu after latest aftershock
The US Geological Survey said the latest quake, which follows scores of slightly less strong aftershocks during the week, was nearly 50 miles deep and hit 49 miles west of Guangyuan in Sichuan province.
It hit as rescuers returned to Beichuan, where thousands of residents have fled over fears a lake could burst its banks following days of heavy rain.
Sky News' China correspondent Peter Sharp said: "Through the morning there were rumours there was a dam that had been damaged in the earthquake and the water there had been rising over the last few days.
"The military engineers who were watching this were slightly concerned and they reduced the number of people working in the search area and in doing that caused panic among the thousands of volunteers.
"We watched as they travelled down the road in hundreds of cars."
Sharp added: "The general I spoke to said his engineers were the best in the nation and have got everything under control."
Other reports suggested the risk of the lake bursting its banks were "extremely big".
Five days after the quake struck the southwest of the country, rescuers pulled at least 63 people alive from collapsed buildings, state media said, revising its earlier toll of seven.
Bian Gengfeng, 31, spent more than 124 hours trapped under a crumpled six-story apartment building in Longhua.
Sky News has obtained new footage (http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1316349&flashURL=/feeds/skynews/latest/flash/china_170508_1400.flv)of a school in Beichuan that collapsed, trapping 900 students.
Chinese state news agency says soldiers dug out a 52-year-old man who was buried in ruins for 117 hours in Beichuan, not far from the quake's epicentre.
Earlier, a German tourist was pulled alive from a building in the village of Taoguan.
http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1679669.jpg School in Beichuan that collapsed
The official number of dead has risen to 28,881 - it had been 20,000 - but it is expected to rise to as many as 50,000 as more bodies are pulled from the rubble.
The United Nations has released £3.5m in aid and rescue teams from Taiwan, Japan, Russia, South Korea and Singapore are now in the country.
They will join 130,000 Chinese troops in the disaster areas.
There is growing anger over suspicions that some schools and factories collapsed because of poor building work.
Almost 7,000 schoolrooms have been destroyed and thousands of children killed by the quake, which measured 7.9 on the Richter scale.
Meanwhile, people in Sichuan's southern town of Houzhuang say some areas have still not been reached.
They are complaining of sickness after having to drink from a ditch.
Rescuers have been hampered by aftershocks, which have shaken Sichuan province, causing landslides.
China is also on radiation leak alert. The government's website has warned citizens to take precautions.
Nearly five million people have lost their homes but the search for survivors continues.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1316330,00.html
See they we're in alot of trouble, now they are in a hell load more of trouble.
Isn't looking good and the aids just left china...
http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1679748.jpg Residents flee buildings in Chengdu after latest aftershock
The US Geological Survey said the latest quake, which follows scores of slightly less strong aftershocks during the week, was nearly 50 miles deep and hit 49 miles west of Guangyuan in Sichuan province.
It hit as rescuers returned to Beichuan, where thousands of residents have fled over fears a lake could burst its banks following days of heavy rain.
Sky News' China correspondent Peter Sharp said: "Through the morning there were rumours there was a dam that had been damaged in the earthquake and the water there had been rising over the last few days.
"The military engineers who were watching this were slightly concerned and they reduced the number of people working in the search area and in doing that caused panic among the thousands of volunteers.
"We watched as they travelled down the road in hundreds of cars."
Sharp added: "The general I spoke to said his engineers were the best in the nation and have got everything under control."
Other reports suggested the risk of the lake bursting its banks were "extremely big".
Five days after the quake struck the southwest of the country, rescuers pulled at least 63 people alive from collapsed buildings, state media said, revising its earlier toll of seven.
Bian Gengfeng, 31, spent more than 124 hours trapped under a crumpled six-story apartment building in Longhua.
Sky News has obtained new footage (http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1316349&flashURL=/feeds/skynews/latest/flash/china_170508_1400.flv)of a school in Beichuan that collapsed, trapping 900 students.
Chinese state news agency says soldiers dug out a 52-year-old man who was buried in ruins for 117 hours in Beichuan, not far from the quake's epicentre.
Earlier, a German tourist was pulled alive from a building in the village of Taoguan.
http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1679669.jpg School in Beichuan that collapsed
The official number of dead has risen to 28,881 - it had been 20,000 - but it is expected to rise to as many as 50,000 as more bodies are pulled from the rubble.
The United Nations has released £3.5m in aid and rescue teams from Taiwan, Japan, Russia, South Korea and Singapore are now in the country.
They will join 130,000 Chinese troops in the disaster areas.
There is growing anger over suspicions that some schools and factories collapsed because of poor building work.
Almost 7,000 schoolrooms have been destroyed and thousands of children killed by the quake, which measured 7.9 on the Richter scale.
Meanwhile, people in Sichuan's southern town of Houzhuang say some areas have still not been reached.
They are complaining of sickness after having to drink from a ditch.
Rescuers have been hampered by aftershocks, which have shaken Sichuan province, causing landslides.
China is also on radiation leak alert. The government's website has warned citizens to take precautions.
Nearly five million people have lost their homes but the search for survivors continues.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1316330,00.html
See they we're in alot of trouble, now they are in a hell load more of trouble.
Isn't looking good and the aids just left china...