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Hu Jintao urges rescue workers not to give up

Updated on May 18, 2008 08:56 pm IST

Chinese President Hu Jintao urged emergency workers not to give up efforts to find survivors, saying people should come first and that saving people's lives was still the top priority of the relief work. Rescue workers have plucked more than 60 survivors from the rubble following May 12 massive earthquake in southwestern China as the death count of China's worst earthquake in over 30 years climbed and thousands of new dead were being uncovered.

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