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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8619593.stmChina earthquake kills hundreds in Qinghai
Some 400 people have died and thousands are feared injured after a magnitude-6.9 quake hit western China's Qinghai province, officials say.
The powerful tremor struck remote Yushu county, 800km (500 miles) south-west of the provincial capital Xining, at 0749 (2349 GMT), at a shallow depth of 10km.
Most of the buildings in the worst-hit town of Jiegu were wrecked, and landslides have cut off roads.
Police said hundreds of survivors had already been pulled from the rubble.
Senior Yushu official Huang Liming announced the latest death toll of 400, as the extent of the damage became clearer.
State broadcaster CCTV reported that at least 10,000 people are injured.
A local official in Jiegu told the BBC that almost all of the buildings in the town had been destroyed.
"The death toll will definitely go up," he said.
By nightfall on Wednesday, the local airport was operating with emergency power and receiving flights containing rescue workers with sniffer dogs.
Crews were working on clearing the road to the airport, which was blocked by landslides.
About 5,000 specialist quake rescuers have been dispatched from neighbouring provinces plus tents, clothing and blankets.
Many people have fled to the surrounding mountains, amid fears that a nearby dam could burst in the string of aftershocks hitting the area.
State media reported that officials were trying to drain a reservoir after a crack appeared in the dam.
Most of the damage has been to houses built of wood and mud, but some larger concrete buildings have been badly damaged as well.
A spokesman for the local government, Zhuo Huaxia, told China's state news agency Xinhua: "The streets in Jiegu are thronged with panic - injured people, with many bleeding in the head.
"Many students are buried under the debris due to building collapse at a vocational school.
"I can see injured people everywhere. The biggest problem now is that we lack tents, we lack medical equipment, medicine and medical workers."
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