Images Dated 26th February 2003

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A door remains standing after the house was flattened by an earthquake in
Qiongkuer Qiake township, in Bachu county in China's remote Xinjiang region,
on February 26, 2003. A devastating earthquake shook western China Monday,
killing more than 266 people, injuring more than 4, 000 and flattening homes,
schools and other buildings near the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar. Some 240 of
the dead were from this village. NO RIGHTS CLEARANCES OR PERMISSIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS IMAGE REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV
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