Personal items lie amid muddy ruins

A wedding album lies in the ruins, Aug 10, 2010. Ordinary things are surfacing as the search and rescue work continues in mudslide-hit Zhouqu county, Northwest China’s Gansu province. About 45,000 residents have been evacuated, as mudslides destroyed more than 300 homes and damaged another 700. Also, 3,000 homes have been flooded. [Photo/Xinhua]

A tattered admission card for a student’s entrance examination is found in the mud, Aug 10, 2010. [Photo/Xinhua]