(Photo from Xinhua)High-altitude sickness, cold weather and incessant aftershocks compromised the rescure efforts in Qinhai, where hit by a magnitude of 7.1 earthquake on Wednesday. Due to lack of tools and machineries, rescures used their bare hands to claw through the debris in order to pull surviors out amid bitter cold and sparse oxygen in breathing air. Rescure workers and sniffer dogs were suffered from high-altitude sickness and thus compromised the rescure efficiency. Since aftershocks with magnitude from 5 to 6 were possible, extra danger was added. Released by rescure headquarters by 4:30 pm yesterday, the dead tolls had risen to 760, 243 were missing and 11,477 were in injured. Rescurers were working around the clock since the 72-hours "golden-period" was close to an end.
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