People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers carry a survivor from the ruins of a collapsed apartment block in the city of Beichuan, located around 150 km north of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province May 16, 2008. [Agencies]

An injured boy looks with a friend at photographs in a newspaper related to the earthquake at a centre for missing schoolchildren in the city of Mianyang, located around 100 km north of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province May 16, 2008. China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50,000. [Agencies]

People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers take a break from trying to find survivors in the earthquake devastated city of Beichuan, located around 150 km north of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province May 16, 2008. China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50,000. [Agencies]

(China Daily May 17, 2008)