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4/14/2010 BEIJING - The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southwest China has risen to 589, Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, with hundreds of homes and some schools toppled in the remote mountainous Tibetan Plateau.

The agency quoted local quake-relief headquarters as giving the figure following Wednesday's quake, which also injured thousands. The death toll had earlier stood at 400.

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