China says 5,335 children dead, missing from '08 quake

2009/05/07 06:15:24 @Reuters: International News

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday put the official number of dead and missing schoolchildren from last year's devastating Sichuan earthquake at 5,335, far lower than the number compiled from news reports at the time. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=KSSFYGyC2Os:2Ei9-2zlQjA:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=KSSFYGyC2Os:2Ei9-2zlQjA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=KSSFYGyC2Os:2Ei9-2zlQjA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=KSSFYGyC2Os:2Ei9-2zlQjA:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=KSSFYGyC2Os:2Ei9-2zlQjA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/KSSFYGyC2Os" height="1" width="1"/
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