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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 08 > China reports death toll for schools in ’08 quake

China reports death toll for schools in ’08 quake

By Andrew Jacobs and Edward Wong / The Bulletin
May 8, 2009

BEIJING — After a year of obfuscation, the authorities on Thursday released the first official tally of student deaths from the earthquake last May, saying that 5,335 children either were dead or remained missing. An additional 546 were left disabled, they said.

Previous estimates....

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