Chinese Pemier Wen Jiabao at quake spot

2008-05-13 06:28:34 - Chinese officials in the process of probes of casuality and damaged done by sunday hailstorm and Monday quake,the most devastating catastrophy in this decade ,puts the death toll unofficially to tens of thousand as wide ridge area remain blocked with rocks .

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has reached at the spot and has ordered to remove barriers, open up roads to epicenter before 12 p.m. Tuesday after a devastating quake needs emergent aids in southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday afternoon.

Wen in an emergency meeting at 7: a.m. Tuesday morning, said, "We must try our best to open up roads to the epicenter and rescue people trapped in the disaster-hit areas." Wen stressed the military forces should try their best to open up roads to the epicenter and at the same time to air-drop commodities like food, pharmacy to the areas.

China quake worst ever in this decade Chinese authorities have deployed more than 16000 armymen have been asked to take up the rescue operations. Dozens medical health teams are aslo put at the quake affected zones.

Currently, Premier at quake spots said the situation in Wenchuan, Lixian County and Maoxian County is still unclear and rescuers are unable to reach this areas.

The Quake measuring 7.8-magnitude quake,on the rechter scale which occurred in Wenchuan Monday afternoon, has killed 9200 people in eight affected provinces and municipality including Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan, Shanxi, Guizhou and Hubei, the ministry of civil affairs said in a release issued at 7 a.m.

The road from Dujiangyan, a city northwest of the provincial capital Chengdu, to Wenchuan, the epicenter, was blocked by rocks and mud slides, holding up rescue, medical and other disaster relief teams.

"At present, we have great difficulties to carry out our rescue work", Wen said, noting "Blocked road, disrupted communication and continuous rainfall have all created obstacles to our rescue efforts."

"People's lives and property safety are the top priorities and many people are still trapped in debris," the premier said, stressing "We must treasure every second and do our utmost to save survivors."

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has pledged to save as many lives as the rescue teams can in southwest China's Sichuan Province which was hit by a major quake on Monday afternoon during his inspections at a hospital and a school in Dujiangyan, a city northwest of the provincial capital Chengdu