DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - The death toll in China's earthquake climbed past 13,000 on Tuesday and looked set to rise much higher after media said some 19,000 people were buried in rubble in just one area.


Rain and severed roads hampered rescuers in the mountainous area near the epicenter of Monday's 7.9-magnitude quake in the southwestern province of Sichuan, China's worst earthquake in three decades.

State media reported devastation as troops reached stricken villages near the epicenter in Wenchuan, a remote county cut off by landslides about 100 km (60 miles) northwest of the provincial capital, Chengdu.

Officials announced late on Tuesday that 500 Wenchuan residents were confirmed dead, Xinhua news agency reported. But the toll there and elsewhere is likely to soar.

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la verdad yo pienso que el govierno de China deveria habrirle las puertas a los paises que quieren ayudarlo ya que asta ahora mucha gente sigue bajo los escombros niños ancianos etc. el govierno de China deberia de dejar su orgullo communista y dejar que ayuda llege a toda la gente necesitada, pero bueno que puede hacer uno otra vez los goviernos tienen mucha de las veces la culpa por la que mucha gente sufre.