Luding quake toll rises to 82

When Zhang Yongjun, a 41-year-old officer of the Special Service Brigade of the Sichuan Provincial Forest Fire Brigade, and his 50 men approached Moxi at 8 pm on Monday, aftershocks interrupted their progress.

"We had to use the rope climbing method to reach the center of Moxi," he said.

When Zhang Guosheng, head of the Yajiang County Forest Fire Brigade in Ganzi, and 17 brigade members approached the village of Qinggangping in Moxi after the earthquake, the village bridge had been destroyed.