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About 400 people were killed on Wednesday when a devastating earthquake jolted northwest China's Qinghai province, bringing down buildings like a pack of cards and leaving thousands bloodied and shaken. The 7.1 magnitude quake struck the Yushu prefecture at 7.49 am at a depth of 33 km. Eighteen aftershocks quickly followed, causing widespread destruction.
About 400 people have died and many are buried under tonnes of debris of collapsed houses in Gyegu town near the epicentre in Yushu, Xinhua quoted local official Huang Limin as saying. The strong quake toppled houses, temples, gas stations and electric poles, triggered landslides, damaged roads, cut power supplies and disrupted telecommunications.
A reservoir cracked and workers frantically tried to prevent the outflow of water. Gyegu town, with a population of about 100,000, was in shock.
About 700 soldiers tried desperately to clear away the rubble and rescue the buried people while over 5,000 additional rescuers, including soldiers and medical workers, have been dispatched to the quake-hit region.
"Our top priority is to save students. Schools are always places that have many people," said Kang Zifu, an Army officer.
More than 85 percent of the houses in Gyegu had collapsed, said another official Zhuohuaxia who added that "the streets in Gyegu are thronged with panic, injured people, with many bleeding from the head.
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