Earthquake in China

Family members wait as the bodies of students are pulled from the site of Dongqi Middle School in Hanwang, China. About 300 of the 600 students who were in the four-story school building when it collapsed in the earthquake are buried in the rubble.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

A relative of one of the missing students from Dongqi Middle School in Hanwang, China, waits as bodies are pulled from the site. Parents said they had heard before Monday’s massive earthquake that the four-story school building, built in 1966, was in bad shape, but they had no idea it was so vulnerable. It collapsed in the quake.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

A body is wheeled away after being recovered from the collapse of Dongqi Middle School in Hanwang, China. In a now well-practiced routine, workers at the site place each body in a yellow bag, transfer it to a wheelbarrow and move it to a truck about a block away.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Anxious family members look on as a body is taken from the site of the collapsed Dongqi Middle School in Hanwang, China.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Quake survivors examine a body pulled from the rubble of Dongqi Middle School in Hanwang, China, to try to determine if it is one of their relatives.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

A family leaves the Dongqi Middle School site in Hanwang, China, where the search continues for students buried under the school building’s collapse.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Rescue workers in Hanwang, China, retrieve the body of another earthquake victim. Nearly 21,000 people remain missing more than two weeks after the quake struck Sichuan province on May 12.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Workers recover a body from the earthquake devastation in China’s Sichuan province.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Tan Keren, 50, center, is led away by relatives after his wife’s body was found at the site of their home, which was destroyed in the earthquake.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Xiao Hui, 40, left, waits with relatives as the search continues for student victims at Dongqi Middle School in Hanwang, China. Xiao’s family has been looking at bodies for three days in search of his missing 18-year-old son. As each body is recovered, relatives of missing students crowd around to see if it is that of their loved one. “We push through, looking at the shoes and clothes,” Xiao said. “The face is often too swollen to recognize.”  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Yang Xiaohua, 30, left, and a relative react after the body of Yang’s aunt was discovered in the earthquake devastation in Hanwang, China.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Yang Xiaohua burns funeral money in honor of her aunt, whose body lies under the white sheet in front of her home in Hanwang, China, that was leveled by the earthquake.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Chinese rescuers carry the injured from a helicopter that airlifted them from the quake-strickened town of Yingxiu to Chengdu airport.  (AFP / Getty Images)

Rescuers help a quake victim, center, who was brought by boat from Yingxiu County to Dujiangyan.  (Guang Niu / Getty IMages)

A rescuer carries an elderly woman from the town of Beichuan. More than 130,000 soldiers and police joined the relief operation.  (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

Rescuers carry a quake victim from the town of Beichuan. More than 100,000 were injured in Sichuan province, where the quake was centered, the vice governor told reporters.  (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

A woman with a head injury sits in a wheelchair beside a makeshift tent in Dujiangyan.  (Frederic J. Brown / AFP/Getty Images)

A couple build a shelter on the ruins of their house in Luoshui.  (Greg Baker / Associated Press)

An American Red Cross rescue worker makes her way through destroyed houses in Beichuan.  (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

A woman grieves over her daughter, whose body was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed elementary school in Yingxiu. The confirmed death toll from Monday’s quake reached 19,509, but officials warned that it could hit 50,000.  (Liu Jin / AFP/Getty Images)

A family grieves after the body of a relative was removed from a collapsed primary school, rear, in Hanwang.  (Mark Ralston /AFP/Getty Images)

Firefighters carry the body of a student past a pile of school backpacks after removing it from a collapsed primary school in Hanwang.  (Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images)

Liu Lu, 11, who survived the collapse of her Hanwang school in Monday’s 7.9 magnitude earthquake, cries in pain as her injuries are treated at a hospital in Deyang.  (Andy Wong / Associated Press)