China begins rescue work
NZPA-Reuter Peking China has begun a rescue effort after a powerful earthquake killed more than 600 people in a remote south-west region along the Burmese border. Authorities in Yunan province planned to airlift tents, food and medicine to the stricken area, officials in the provincial capital of Kunming said yesterday. Medical teams and the People’s Liberation Army were rushed in to help and seismological experts were on the scene, they said.
The earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, hit Lancang and Menglian counties on Sunday and destroyed more than 70 per cent of the houses at its epicentre. Officials said they had no tally of the number of injured in the poor and mountainous region, home mainly to ethnic minority peasants. The “People’s Daily” said yesterday houses were toppled in 10 counties and that a road linking Lancang and the nearest large town, Simao, had been cut.
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