BEIJING, May 16 (UPI) -- The official death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck China this week has reached 22,069 people, authorities said Friday.
State Council emergency response office officials said 21,577 of those killed in Monday's quake were in the Sichuan Province, which saw its official death toll increase by nearly 2,000 from earlier totals, China's official state-run Xinhua news agency said.