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Earthquake in China's Qinghai province

Rescuers use sound equipment to search for survivors Photograph: Andy Wong/AP Photograph: Andy Wong/guardian.co.uk Tibetan people have dinner around a fire close to their collapsed homes in Jiegu Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/guardian.co.uk Tibetan monks carry the body of a woman who was killed by collapsed Mani stones, which Tibetan people pile up to pray, in Jiegu Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/guardian.co.uk Monks carry bodies, wrapped in covers, onto a truck for Tibetan burial near Jiegu Monastery Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/guardian.co.uk Riot police guard a truck filled with tents to be delivered to quake survivors at the government office compound in Jiegu Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/guardian.co.uk Tibetan Buddhist monks serve congee to hungry earthquake survivors in Jiegu Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/guardian.co.uk A dead horse lays among the rubble in Jiegu Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/guardian.co.uk A quake survivor, who lost 10 members of her family, prays while holding onto her nephew in Jiegu Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/guardian.co.uk Survivors surrounded by collapsed buildings in Jiegu Photograph: AP Photograph: guardian.co.uk Ethnic Tibetans amidst the rubble in Jiegu Photograph: Alfred Jin/Reuters Photograph: Alfred Jin/guardian.co.uk A nine-month old earthquake survivor Photograph: Reuters Photograph: guardian.co.uk Rescuers search for victims while local residents stand on the rubble of a collapsed building Photograph: Alfred Jin/Reuters Photograph: Alfred Jin/guardian.co.uk People's Liberation Army soldiers carry a survivor Photograph: Wang Qiang/AP Photograph: Wang Qiang/guardian.co.uk Rescuers carry an injured man from the ruins Photograph: Reuters Photograph: guardian.co.uk Rescuers search for survivors with their bare hands in the ruins of Jiegu Photograph: AP Photograph: guardian.co.uk A man stands in rubble of a destroyed building in Jiegu town Photograph: Wu Hong/AP Photograph: Wu Hong/guardian.co.uk A car under the ruins and debris Photograph: Ren Xiaogang/AP Photograph: Ren Xiaogang/guardian.co.uk Rescuers and survivors work to dig people out Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/guardian.co.uk A monk walks past destroyed buildings in Yushu county Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/guardian.co.uk An injured woman is rescued Photograph: Ren Xiaogang/AP Photograph: Ren Xiaogang/guardian.co.uk Collapsed houses in Yushu, Qinghai province Photograph: Rex Features Photograph: guardian.co.uk People ride pass the ruins of fallen buildings Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/guardian.co.uk A makeshift media centre for reporters covering the earthquake Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/guardian.co.uk

Source: The Guardian ↗

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