Eight-months pregnant Zhang Xiaoyan, 34, is pulled alive from an apartment that partially collapsed following Monday's powerful earthquake in Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
An elderly woman is pulled out alive after being trapped for two days in an apartment that collapsed following Monday's powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
A rescue worker peers out during efforts to free a pregnant woman from an apartment that partially collapsed in Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
An earthquake survivor is seen at a hospital in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The official death toll after Monday's powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake rose Tuesday to nearly 12,000, and thousands remained buried or missing.
A trapped youth from Beichuan Middle School waits for rescuers in the earthquake-hit region of Beichuan County, about 100 miles northeast of the epicenter in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Rescue workers sifted through the debris of toppled schools and homes Tuesday for thousands of victims buried or missing as the death toll soared to more than 12,000 people in the hardest-hit province alone.
A nurse helps a trapped youth in the earthquake-hit region of Beichuan County, about 100 miles northeast of the epicenter in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday May 13, 2008.
Rescuers search for survivors on a collapsed road in Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday May 13, 2008. Rescue workers sifted through tangled debris of toppled schools and homes Tuesday looking for thousands of victims buried or missing after China's worst earthquake in three decades, as the death toll soared to more than 12,000 people in the hardest-hit province alone.
Rescuers try to help a stranded student out of the debris at Wudu Primary School at Hanwang town in Mianzhu city, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. China state media says that thousands of people "remain buried" in rubble in Mianzhu near the epicenter of Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the country.
A student helps his schoolmate stranded in the ruins of a high school in the earthquake-affected Beichuan County, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The death toll from a powerful earthquake in China that toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants climbed Tuesday to about 12,000, while untold numbers remained trapped after the country's worst quake in three decades.
Rescuers carry a wounded person out of the debris of collapsed buildings after the earthquake in Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Relief soldiers carry out the wounded in the earthquake-affected Beichuan County, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Rescue workers carry out a young boy from the rubble of a collapsed house in Dujiangyan, a city close to the epicenter of the earthquake, in southwest China's Sichuan Province Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
The hands of dead students are seen among the rubble of a collapsed school in Dujiangyan, a city close to the epicenter of the earthquake, in southwest China's Sichuan Province Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Rescue workers pull a young girl out from under the rubble of a collapsed school in Juyuan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Rescue workers pull out a young girl from under the rubble of a collapsed school in Juyuan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Residents watch rescue efforts as they stand on piles of rubble in Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Rescuers search for victims in the debris of a hospital after the earthquake in Dujiangyan, in southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday, May 12, 2008.
Rescuers try to help an injured student from the debris at the Juyuan Middle School after an earthquake hit in Dujiangyan in southwest China's Sichuan Province Tuesday, May 13, 2008.