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Rescue efforts, survivors in town closest to epicentre

SHOTLIST

1. Wide top shot of massive destruction of collapsed buildings and some rescue workers amongst rubble
2. Close-up of hand of corpse covered by green canvas sheet
3. Wide of rubble and rescue workers with corpse's hand in foreground
4. Search and rescue dog barking at handler's command and running to sniff under rubble UPSOUND dog barking
5. Close-up of dog sniffing under rubble
6. Wide of rescue workers and dog with twisted metal and concrete in foreground
7. Rescue workers carrying survivor away on a makeshift stretcher
8. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zhang Wei, Rescue worker from Zitong County in Sichuan province:
I'm not clear about her condition, we just rescued her from the mountains. It looks like she has injuries to her waist.
9. Wide rubble and rescue workers
10. UPSOUND: (Mandarin) Beichuan resident pointing and saying: The day before when we came to rescue people there was someone down there. Pan to the direction he is pointing with rescue workers amidst rubble
11. Close of rescue worker peering into rubble with flashlight
12. Wide of rescue workers on collapsed roof of building with other rescue workers moving past in foreground
13. Wide of rescue workers and residents lifting broken cupboard and pushing it away
14. Close of photograph of woman amongst debris
15. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Li Gu, Rescue worker, Yunnan Earthquake Rescue team:
I'm very worried now because they have discovered survivors and they need our equipment, they need our vehicles which can cut metal and force open cracks. But we can't get in now.
16. Wide contingent of soldiers marching with fallen boulder in foreground
17. Close boots of soldiers marching
18. Soldiers carrying injured woman on stretcher
19. Group of injured villagers with one carrying an injured old man in a basket strapped to his back
20. Close-up of baby girl Shi crying and holding bottle of water
21. Mid of mother and Shi crying
22. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Gao De Qun, earthquake victim:
We had to climb over the huge mountain there to get here.
23. Wide of lone man walking in empty street pan to bodies on street covered with sheets
24. Mid of covered dead bodies lying in street
25. Close-up of hand of body sticking out from sheet


STORYLINE:

Stunned survivors clutching their scant belongings lined the mountain road into one of the remotest corners of China's earthquake zone as troops marched by on Friday to find scenes of utter devastation.

Buildings not flattened or toppled into piles of smoking debris in Beichuan county were left tilting at awkward angles - evidence of the violent power of the quake that struck four days earlier.

Beichuan, a region of small mines and tea plantations whose forest-clad hills are the habitat for rare pandas, was among the hardest hit by the 7.9 magnitude quake, which shattered roads and set off landslides that left its three major towns and 13 smaller villages isolated.

State media said Friday that soldiers and police who had flooded into the disaster zone had finally reached all of the hardest-hit isolated mountain counties and townships near the epicentre.

In Beichuan town, rescue workers used sniffer dogs in the hope of finding survivors.

Since the quake, some intrepid residents of Beichuan city have returned to help rescue workers.

One man directed recovery teams to a hole in a collapsed government building where they heard cries the day before.

Rescue personnel spent over an hour digging and calling out in the hope of hearing a response.

After clearing the passage by removing several broken beams and a broken cabinet, it became clear that their search was futile.

But elsewhere in Beichuan, survivors were found.














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