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Pigeons fly near a flame from the Taj Hotel hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen have stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said.
Source : AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade

Pigeons fly as firemen fight a blaze at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.  Source : AP Photo/Gautam Singh

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A student sits in the shambles of his school classroom in Guancheng village in Chongqing after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake rattled Sichuan Province, China, on May 12, 2008.

Source : National geographics

Hundreds of thousands in central China are sleeping outdoors for fear of more tremors after Saturday’s earthquake.

Source : BBC/Associated Press(AP)

China- A family lives in a tent after a devastating 6.4 magnitude quake.

Primary school students in northwest China’s Gansu Province squat under their desks during an earthquake that devastated much of neighboring Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.

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A girl is evacuated after a major earthquake struck Chengdu, Sichuan Province, on May 12, 2008.

Source : National geographics

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