Death toll in China earthquake alomost 29,000

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17 May 2008 @ 05:45 am EST

BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese government spokesman says the confirmed death toll in this week's massive earthquake has risen to almost 29,000.

A student from another school looks through books found in the ruins of the Juyuan Middle School, in Dujiangyan, in China's southwest Sichuan province Saturday May 17, 2008. All but a handful of the school's 900 students were killed when the school collapsed in Monday's earthquake. China is to launch an investigation into why almost 7000 schoolrooms were destroyed and thousands of children killed in the earthquake, after accusation...

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Cabinet spokesman Guo Weimin gave the figure Saturday at a news conference. The government has already said it expects the eventual death toll to surpass 50,000.

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