State media has reported that 1,300 rescue and relief troops have arrived at the epicenter of China's massive earthquake that has killed 10,000 people.
The official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that the rescue workers and troops had arrived in Wenchuan county, the epicenter of Monday's 7.9-magnitude quake.
Wenchuan had been cut off for one day since the earthquake struck and the number of casualties there was not immediately known.
Two Israeli students who were located in one of the worse struck areas have yet to contact their families and are deemed missing.
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