Quake-hit China's Qinghai Province

Quake-hit China's Qinghai Province

QINGHAI PROVINCE, China - A quake-affected man grabs a meal in the rubble from destroyed buildings in Jieguzhen in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the western Chinese province of Qinghai on April 16, 2010. (Kyodo)

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