| 16 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago Quake recovery efforts continue in China
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(NECN: China) - Military helicopters dropped food and medicine to Chinese earthquake survivors who remained cut off Wednesday in remote mountain villages behind roads clogged by landslides, while a jump in deaths pushed the toll close to 20,000.
AP Television filmed soldiers guarding the road towards Wenchuan, the county at the epicenter of the quake.
Many people are worried about what has happened to their relatives.
Feng Xianjun, who is from Wenchuan and has been working in Dujiangyan city told AP Television he needed to find his family.
"My family are all in Wenchuan and I am worrying about them very much. I must go back to see whether they are safe. I am so worried. I can not reach them by
phone either," he said.
Roads leading to Wenchuan from all directions were still being cleared of debris, Feng Zhenglin, deputy minister of railway and transportation, said in
Beijing.
The scale of devastation became clearer as more rescuers walked into the hardest-hit areas of central Sichuan province, finding towns where 80 percent of
the population fell victim to Monday's magnitude 7.9 quake.
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