Sunday, July 12, 2009

Thousands camp in tents after 6.0 quake in China Updated at: 1822 PST, Sunday, July 12, 2009


GUANTUNXIANG: Thousands camped in tents in southwestern China on Saturday after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake destroyed thousands of homes, killed one person and injured 320, state media reported.At the epicenter of Thursday's quake in Yao'an county, nearly 22,000 people took shelter in some 3,000 tents, and emergency crews rushed in quilts, rice, cooking oil and other supplies, a local news agency said.The quake displaced some 250,000 people, the r .... Full Story

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