China: Overwhelmed by images
Rescue workers in Hanwang, China, retrieve the body of another earthquake victim. Nearly 21,000 people remain missing more than two weeks after the quake struck Sichuan province on May 12. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Tan Keren, 50, center, is led away by relatives after his wife’s body was found at the site of their home, which was destroyed in the earthquake. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
An earthquake survivor leads family members to the building where her child died. Ten of their relatives were killed in the earthquake that struck Sichuan province in China on May 12. Thousands of people remain buried in collapsed buildings from the 7.9 quake, the nation’s worst natural disaster in three decades. The government has raised the death toll to more than 67,000. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Zheng Rongchong grieves for her daughter, Liu Wenbo,10, who died along with 128 other students at Fuxin No. 2 Primary School during the May 12 quake in China’s Sichuan province. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
A man observes a moment of silence in the earthquake-hit township of Hanwang during the nation’s official mourning period. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
A mannequin is among the quake casualties in Hanwang, north of Chengdu, in Sichuan province. Aftershocks have rocked the province since the magnitude 7.9 quake struck May 12. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Four-year-old earthquake victim Zhang Jingi is comforted by his mother, Yang Baozhi, at a hospital in Jianguyo. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Quake survivors examine a body pulled from the rubble of Dongqi Middle School in Hanwang, China, to try to determine if it is one of their relatives. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
