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| China quakes kill 4, injure 400 |
BEIJING (AP) - Two earthquakes struck southwest China hours apart Saturday, killing at least four people, injuring 400 others and collapsing thousands of buildings, officials said. A 5.9-magnitude quake hit Yao'an county in Yunnan province, about 900 miles west of Hong Kong, at 6:09 a.m. local time, sending people running from their homes. An even stronger aftershock with a magnitude of 6.5 struck 90 minutes later, according to a county seismologist who gave just his surname, Su. Four people were killed, 29 were seriously injured and 371 were slightly hurt, government seismologists said. The State Seismology Bureau in Beijing said 4,000 buildings collapsed, but state-run television said up to 10,000 buildings had fallen or were seriously damaged. |
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