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China earthquake injures 300, 3 dead: Xinhua

By Nick Macfie 1 hour, 21 minutes
ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - An earthquake hit a tea-making city in southwest China on
Sunday, bringing down houses and killing at least three people, one a
4-year-old, and injuring 300, Xinhua news agency said.

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The quake shook the city of Pu'er and the surrounding area in mountainous
Yunnan province in the early morning when most people were asleep, the agency
said. It was followed by 55 aftershocks.

Tremors were felt 200 km (120 miles) away to the north and south.

"The dead included a 4-year-old boy, who was sleeping with his mother when
the earth-built walls of their house collapsed in the quake and buried him and
half of the body of his mother," Xinhua said. "The mother was rescued but the
boy was killed."

Xinhua earlier told a Hong Kong television station a 4-year-old girl was
among the dead. It was not clear if the two child victims were one and the
same.

Power was cut to the city and the only communications possible were by mobile
phone, a local official said. The quake forced the evacuation of 120,000
residents, Xinhua quoted a provincial civil affairs department official as
saying.

Some mostly mud-and-brick houses had collapsed and roads were destroyed,
state TV said. Water and power supplies were damaged.

The quake hit at 5:34 a.m. (2134 GMT Saturday) and one Pu'er office worker
named Li said it had woken her in her fifth-floor apartment.

"I tried to get up but the tremor was too strong. It cracked the window
panes," she told Reuters.

She was called to her office, where she saw soldiers and armed police rushing
down the street as rescue operations began.

President
Hu
Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu had asked
provincial government officials "to mobilize all resources available to treat
the injured and minimize the loss of lives and property," Xinhua said.

Coal mines in the area were ordered to suspend operations and evacuate all
workers.

The Pu'er city government had allocated 1 million yuan ($131,000) for relief,
Xinhua said. The provincial civil affairs department was sending 2,000 tents,
2,000 quilts and 2,000 items of clothing to the stricken area.

Ning'er county, covering an area of 3,670 sq km (1,400 sq miles) within the
city limits, has a population of 190,000.

Pu'er, home of the tea of the same name, lies near to the border with
Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. The epicenter of the quake was 23.0 degrees north and
101.1 degrees east.

Earthquakes are common in China. In August last year, a 5.1 magnitude quake
rocked Yunnan, killing two people.

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