Battle to reach China quake victims

Rescuers are struggling to free people trapped under rubble after a powerful earthquake and strong aftershocks devastated a remote mountainous region in China's western province of Qinghai. The death toll stood at 760 early on Thursday, with more than 10,000 people injured, state-run media and local quake relief officials said. The ministry of civil affairs said 15,000 houses had collapsed and 100,000 people needed to be relocated after the quake, which also toppled Buddhist temples, cracked a dam and triggered landslides, hampering rescue efforts in the mountainous area 4,000m above sea level.