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Rescue operations underway in quake-hit area

(Xinhua) Updated: 2012-09-08 21:59
Rescue operations underway in quake-hit area

A rescuer helps villagers evacuate from falling rocks in the quake-hit Luozehe Town, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Sept 8, 2012. Eighty people have been confirmed dead as of Saturday noon following multiple earthquakes that struck Southwest China's Yunnan province on Friday, local authorities said. Many armed police have served as rescuers and deployed to disaster areas. [Photo/Xinhua]

A 40-year-old man in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province who claimed to be a poet who was climbing the barren mountain in search of creative inspiration, somehow became stranded on a cliff on Thursday.

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