View pictures of China’s worst earthquake in 30 years which struck Sichuan province on Monday, killing thousands of people with more feared dead in mountainous areas cut off by landslides, power failures and the collapse of telephone networks.
China earthquake

Rescuers evacuate a survivor from a collapsed road in Beichuan

Medical personnel give first aid to a man trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Beichuan

A boy is given fluids via drip as he waits to be rescued

People climb over a collapsed bridge in Beichuan County

The arm of a victim is seen amidst the debris of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan

Wen Jiabao, China's prime minister, is seen helping out in Dujiangyan

A trapped child is given medical aid before being taken out from under the rubble in Dujiangyan

Rescue workers pull out a young girl from under the rubble of a collapsed school in Juyuan

Rescue workers carry a young girl, who survived the earthqauke, out of the rubble

Wen Jiabao speaks to people trapped under a collapsed hospital in Dujiangyan

A child is rescued from the debris of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan

Students gather at a square in Chongqing municipality, neighbouring Sichuan province, after hundreds of buildings and university accomodation were destroyed

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