President Hu orders all-out efforts to rescue victims in quakes

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Source: CCTV.com | 05-12-2008 19:06

President Hu Jintao has ordered all-out efforts to rescue victims of the two earthquakes that jolted southwest China and Beijing this afternoon. Premier Wen Jiabao is on his way to the quake-hit region in Sichuan Province to direct the rescue work.

A street in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, is covered by water after a water pipe blew out during an earthquake on May 12, 2008. A major earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter Scale jolted Wenchuan County of Sichuan province at 2:28 p.m. on Monday. (Xinhua Photo)

Chengdu Military Area Command has dispatched troops to help with disaster relief work in the earthquake-stricken Wenchuan County.

The State Seismological Bureau will send a team of 180 people to the area for disaster relief. It also said there is no evidence suggesting that an aftershock from Monday's quake in Beijing would occur later in the day.

Editor:Xiong Qu