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Sunday June 24, 2007

Thousands in southwest China evacuated
after Myanmar quake; no injuries

BEIJING (AP): Thousands of villagers in southwest China
were evacuated after a moderate earthquake struck neighboring
Myanmar, Chinese officials and state media said Sunday. No injuries
were reported in China.

The magnitude-5.8 temblor occurred Saturday afternoon, the Xinhua
News Agency said, and was felt in several villages bordering Myanmar
in the Xishuangbanna region of China's Yunnan province.

Some 16,000 residents were moved to safer grounds to prevent
injuries from potential landslides, Xinhua said. Rescue workers have
also distributed 500 tents, it said.

A man who answered the telephone at China's State Seismological
Bureau in Beijing confirmed the quake but said he had no
details.

Telephones were not answered at government offices of Menghai,
the county where most of the villages are located. A woman at the
Menghai Civil Affairs Department said she felt the earthquake and at
least two aftershocks but would not give any details.

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