Pictures of the Day: Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010

Ethnic Tibetan monks sit near rescuers at the site of a collapsed dormitory building at a local school after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Jiegu Town of Yushu County, strong earthquake in China
Alfred Jin / Reuters

Devastation

Ethnic Tibetan monks sit near rescuers at the site of a collapsed dormitory building at a local school after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Jiegu Town of Yushu County, Qinghai province. The death toll from a strong earthquake in China's remote and mountainous Tibetan plateau has climbed to 617.