The death toll of China's major earthquake increased one from Monday's figure to 69,197 as of Tuesday noon, the State Council Information Office said in a statement on Tuesday.

The number of the injured and the missing still stood at 374,176 and 18,379 respectively after the 8.0-magnitude quake jolted southwestern Sichuan Province and neighboring regions on May 12.

(Xinhua News Agency July 8, 2008)