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Mianzhu: 1,500 confirmed dead and 10,000 people remained buried in rubble.
Dujiangyan: about 900 teenagers were buried under a collapsed three-story school building. - At a second school in Dujiangyan, fewer than 100 of 420 students survived, Xinhua reported.
Zipingpu Hydropower plant stopped by quake - According to the Sichuan provincial government on Tuesday morning, the Wenchuan earthquake has caused severe cracks in the dam of the Zipingpu Hydropower Station. The plant and associated buildings have collapsed, and some are partly sunk. The whole installation is out of commission. Located at the junction of Dujiangyan City and Wenchuan County on the upper Minjiang River, the Zipingpu Hydropower Plant was one of the first 10 landmark projects of the Western Development plan. It is also the principal project in the province’s 10th five-year plan. The station was brought into service in 2006.
Woolong: home to more than 100 giant pandas, whose fate is not known - Fifteen missing British tourists were believed in that area at the time of the quake and were out of reach.
Shifang: Where the quake sparked a major chemical leak of liquid ammonia, about 600 people died and as many as 2,300 remained buried, Xinhua said.
Wenchuan: (very top and at middle of map) Roads are cut off and this is the city closest to the Epicenter. 105,000 to 131,000 reported to live here, only 30,000 reported as ok so far. Picture of Wenchuan
A team of 1,300 army medics and soldiers has reached the area at the epicenter of China's earthquake, the first sizeable relief force to get there, state media reported. The team immediately began searching for survivors and treating the injured in Wenchuan county after being forced to hike in overland due to massive damage to roads in the region, Xinhua news agency reported. The team arrived nearly 24 hours after the 7.8-magnitude quake struck Wenchuan, leaving tens of thousands of people dead or missing in Sichuan and neighboring provinces.
Chengdu: Xinhua reported that 60 pandas at another breeding center in Chengdu were safe.
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Beichuan: Just east of the epicenter (Wenchuan), 1,000 students and teachers were killed or missing at a collapsed high school in Beichuan county, a more than six-story building reduced to a pile of rubble about two yards (meters) high, according to Xinhua. The Beichuan school had more than 2,000 students and teachers in three school buildings. The other two buildings collapsed partially, Xinhua said.
It said up to 7,000 people were killed and 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan.
Huixian County in Gansu Province
The 40-carriage train, carrying 13 petrol tanks, derailed in Huixian County, Gansu Province, along the Baoji-Chengdu line. The locomotive caught fire first, then the 13 oil tanks buried by rocks were also ablaze, said a spokesman with the Longnan municipal government. The line was closed after the accident.
The train's two drivers were injured and have been sent to hospital. More than 900 people living nearby were evacuated. The train was still burning at 5 a.m. Tuesday and the oil tanks were likely to explode, forcing the withdrawal of fire fighters to six kilometer away.