A massive relief effort is under way in Beichuan and other areas of China's Sichuan province after Monday's devastating quake. WARNING: VIEWERS MAY FIND THE FOLLOWING IMAGES DISTURBING.
Rescuers try to help a stranded student out of the debris of a primary school in Mianzhu.
Here a young man waits to be rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Beichuan.
Thousands have been trapped under the rubble.
Dozens of students were killed when the Juyuan Middle School collapsed in Dujiangyan.
This boy was rescued from the rubble of a house in Dujiangyan.
Beijing has deployed tens of thousands of troops to the affected areas to lead the rescue work.
A huge rock was dislodged by an aftershock in the Mianyang area. The quake itself struck on Monday afternoon.
So far, the official death toll is 12,000, but it is expected to go up.
Because of strong aftershocks, people do not want to return to their homes, and are preparing to spend another night in the open, in heavy rain, with no power or water.
Dazed survivors stick to the streets, trying to make sense of the disaster.
From BBC
