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 MIANYANG, China (AP) - Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. The death toll of more than 12,000 was certain to rise as the buried were found.
State media reported that 7,700 people were killed in Yingxiu, near the epicenter, but it wasn't clear if that figure was included in the larger toll of 12,000.
Rescuers who hiked across landslide-blocked roads into Yingxiu on Wednesday found the Wenchuan county town "much worse than expected," the official Xinhua News agency reported. Only 2,300 people were believed to have survived, it said.
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