A victim stretches out a hand to ask for help in Mianzhu of Sichuan Province on Tuesday. The death toll has risen to 3,000 in the city.
The confirmed national death toll reached 12,300 by 2 am Wednesday, nearly all of them in Sichuan, according to the temporary disaster relief headquarters headed by Premier Wen Jiabao, who arrived in Dujiangyan, to oversee the rescue work hours after the quake.
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