The deadly May 12 earthquake, measured at magnitude 8.0 on the Richter Scale, killed 69,227 people (official figure as of Sept. 19) and left 17,923 and 374,634 people missing and injured respectively. It is the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people.
Special Report: Wenchuan Earthquake

Pupils read text books in a temporary primary school in quake-hit Dujiangyan City of Sichuan Province June 23, 2008. About 70,000 students in the city resumed classes in 45 temporary schools from June 23.