Local residents walk past in destroyed buildings in Mianyang.

                                                                                Local residents run to get away from fallen rock in aftershock in Mianyang.

                                                                                   Local residents stand in the ruins of their house in the earthquake-affected Mianyang.

                                                                                     A student helps his schoolmate stranded in the ruins of a high school in the earthquake-affected Beichuan County.

                                                                                 Cars are buried in the debris of collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake in Dujiangyan.

People take care of patients in a shelter outside a hospital after the earthquake in Dujiangyan.

                                                                              A wounded girl receives medical treatment at a makeshift ward in the earthquake-affected Liangping County.

Rescuers search for victims in the debris of a collapsed hospital.













Collapsed buildings in Dujiangyan City of southwest China's Sichuan Province.




A Chinese women cries on a street after an earthquake strike in Chengdu.




Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, center, and Communist Party leaders arrange relief work of the earthquake during a flight to the disaster area.




Rescuers search for students at Juyuan Middle School in Juyuan Township of Dujiangyan City.




People evacuate office buildings in Beijing after the quake.

                                                                                                                                                       Local residents stand on a road after an earthquake in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province.




Nurses and residents set up shelter for the patients at a temporary aid post outside a hospital in Chengdu.