In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a landslide near the Tangjiashan earthquake-induced lake blows up dust in Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The lake is at risk of bursting and threatens thousands of people downstream. Some 30 excavators are working non-stop to dig a diversion channel to drain the lake, which is expected to complete within 5 to 7 days if weather permits, Xinhua said.
Earthquake survivors walk their home in Renjiaping village of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province of China Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The number of deaths from the quake has climbed further toward an expected toll of 80,000 or more.
Earthquake survivors walk their home in Renjiaping village of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province of China Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The number of deaths from the quake has climbed further toward an expected toll of 80,000 or more.
Soldiers clean up the rubble from a collapsed building in Renjiaping village of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province of China Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The number of deaths from the quake has climbed further toward an expected toll of 80,000 or more.
A young earthquake survivor sits next to the rubble of a house collapsed by May 12 earthquake in Renjiaping village of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province of China Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The number of deaths from the quake has climbed further toward an expected toll of 80,000 or more.
A woman sorts out shoes she dug out from the rubble as she waits for customers at Jiulong in the city of Mianzhu in China's Sichuan province on Wednesday May 28, 2008. A massive quake struck the country's southwest region on May 12.
In this May 19, 2008 file photo, an earthquake survivor washes his clothes next to a collapsed buildings in Dujiangyan, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Few among the 28 million people living in the Belgium-sized disaster area in Sichuan province have life or property insurance, a lack that will drive up the cost of recovery and make survivors dependent upon government assistance.
A teacher carries a sick student to a first aid post after the boy fell sick during a ceremony to start classes at a temporary primary school in earthquake-hit Qingchuan County, in southwest China's Sichuan province Tuesday, May 27, 2008.
Chinese earthquake survivors look down on the destroyed city of Beichuan as they evacuate the area in China's Sichuan province Wednesday, May 28, 2008. More than 150,000 people have been evacuated and dozens of villages emptied in case the newly formed Tangjiashan lake, located about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) above the devastated town of Beichuan, bursts before soldiers and engineers can drain it, state media said Wednesday.
A huge mound of earth from a landslide caused by the May 12 earthquake blocks the river inside the destroyed city of Beichuan in China's Sichuan province Wednesday, May 28, 2008. More than 150,000 people have been evacuated and dozens of villages emptied in case the newly formed Tangjiashan lake, located about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) above the devastated town of Beichuan, bursts before soldiers and engineers can drain it, state media said Wednesday.
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