Rescuers search the remains of the Long Tai Wan complexPhotograph: Tania Branigan/GuardianThe remains of a block of flatsPhotograph: Tania Branigan/GuardianResidents shelter under an umbrella in front of rubblePhotograph: Tania Branigan/Guardian
Rescuers help a victim from the ruins of the Xin Jian elementary schoolPhotograph: Tania Branigan/GuardianAnxious parents wait for news outside the Xin Jian schoolPhotograph: Tania Branigan/GuardianSecurity forces struggle to hold back desperate parents at the schoolPhotograph: Tania Branigan/GuardianA mother collapses in grief as the body of her child is driven away from the remains of the schoolPhotograph: Tania Branigan/GuardianGrieving parents outside the remains of the Long Tai Wan housing compound, where their one and a half year old daughter Xi Xi has been buried by rubblePhotograph: Tania Branigan/Guardian
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