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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, <country-region wst="on">China</country-region> has reported 14,866 deaths following a devastating quake that rocked the southwestern <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Sichuan</placename>
<placetype wst="on">rovince</placetype></place> and other areas on Monday, Xinhua learnt from authoritative sources. </span></p><span lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br/>Among the figure, 14,463 were dead in <placename wst="on">Sichuan</placename>
<placetype wst="on">rovince</placetype>, <chmetcnv wst="on" tcsc="0" numbertype="1" negative="False" hasspace="True" sourcevalue="280" unitname="in">280 in</chmetcnv>
<placename wst="on">Gansu</placename>
<placetype wst="on">rovince</placetype>, <chmetcnv wst="on" tcsc="0" numbertype="1" negative="False" hasspace="True" sourcevalue="106" unitname="in">106 in</chmetcnv>
<placename wst="on">Shaanxi</placename>
<placetype wst="on">rovince</placetype>, <chmetcnv wst="on" tcsc="0" numbertype="1" negative="False" hasspace="True" sourcevalue="14" unitname="in">14 in</chmetcnv>
<placename wst="on">Chongqing</placename>
<placetype wst="on">Municipality</placetype>, two in <placename wst="on">Henan</placename>
<placetype wst="on">rovince</placetype> and one in <place wst="on"><placename wst="on">Yunnan</placename>
<placetype wst="on">rovince.</placetype></place></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><place wst="on"><placetype wst="on"></placetype></place> </p><place wst="on"><placetype wst="on"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Li Chengyun, vice governor of Sichuan, said at a news conference in Chengdu that Sichuan's death toll of 14,463 was based on incomplete figures by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. He said another 14,051 were missing, 25,788 buried in debris, and 64,746 injured. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://english.cri.cn/2946/2008/05/14/168@357454.htm">http://english.cri.cn/2946/2008/05/14/168@357454.htm</a></span></p></div></placetype></place></span> |
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