Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday that the death toll from a massive earthquake on May 12 had passed 60,000 and could reach 80,000 or more.

It was also disclosed that nearly 12 percent of those killed in the massive earthquake were students and teachers, crushed when their schools collapsed on top of them, the Beijing News reported. The quake damaged 13,451 schools

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