The death toll of China's major earthquake still stood at Saturday's figure of 69,196 as of Monday noon, the State Council Information Office said in a statement on Monday.
The number of the injured and the missing also stood at 374,176 and 18,379 respectively after the 8.0-magnitude quake jolted southwest China's Sichuan Province and neighboring regions on May 12.
(Xinhua News Agency July 7, 2008) |