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Foreign rescue teams arrived in China's quake-devastated southwest on Friday, laden with specialist equipment to aid the desperate search among the rubble of shattered buildings. A Japanese team began work in Sichuan Province, the first time the Chinese government has accepted foreign professionals for a domestic disaster rescue and relief operation.

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