With each passing hour, the casualty count continues to rise from a strong earthquake that struck the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan. By Sunday afternoon, authorities reported 181 deaths, 24 missing and more than 11,200 injuries.

Thousands of emergency workers, including soldiers, rushed to reach the affected zones in the hilly region, but their progress was impeded.

Huge chucks of the mountain in certain areas have sheared off and fallen into the valleys, near the quake’s epicenter in Lushan. Big boulders have landed on the roads, making emergency work difficult.

Source: CNN – China earthquake shears off mountainsides, kills 181 people