Student ID tags are placed on the ground at 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 accusations that the schools were shoddily built.
Yan Baozhen holds the foot of her daughter Lin Jingrong, 6, who was found amidst the rubble of the Qushan kindergarten in Beichuan county, Sichuan province May 16, 2008. Lin's body was found together with that of a classmate. The pair, who had been taking a nap when the earthquake hit on Monday, were later buried together at a nearby park. Picture taken May 16, 2008.
Relatives carry the bodies of their children which were found amidst the rubble of the Qushan kindergarten in Beichuan county, Sichuan province May 16, 2008. The two children, who had been taking a nap when the earthquake hit on Monday, were later buried together at a nearby park. Picture taken May 16, 2008.
A man drinks from a burst water pipe in the main street of the earthquake-devastated city of Dujiangyan, located around 50 km (31 miles) north of Chengdu in Sichuan Province May 17, 2008. Chinese President Hu Jintao urged rescuers in the southwestern province of Sichuan to race against time to save lives, days after the most destructive earthquake to hit modern China, state media said on Saturday.
Doctor disinfect the body of a student recovered from a collapsed school in the earthquake-hit in Wenchuan, Sichuan province, May 16, 2008
A man (2nd L) mourns in front of the bodies of his parents found moments earlier in their collapsed house following Monday's earthquake in Hanwang, Sichuan Province May 15, 2008. An aftershock brought new havoc to the earthquake-stricken region of China on Friday, as it struggled to bury some of its estimated 50,000 dead, dig out more survivors and help thousands of injured and homeless. Picture taken May 15, 2008.
Volunteers sit beside disinfectant container sprays at an evacuation center in Jiangyou, Sichuan Province May 17, 2008. The death toll from the deadliest earthquake to hit China in three decades has risen to almost 29,000, cabinet spokesman Guo Weimin told a news conference on Saturday.