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China rescuers rush to quake scene

27 November 2005, 18:00 PM
INTERNATIONAL
By Afp, Beijing
A young boy jumps over cracks in the ground beside a destroyed farmhouse near the town of Ruichang yesterday after it collapsed during the 5.7 earthquake on November 26 in Jiangxi Province.. PHOTO: AFP
Rescue teams rushed yesterday to a popular tourist spot in eastern China after a powerful earthquake killed at least 15 people in the region and left hundreds of others injured, officials said. Seven teams had been dispatched to the worst-hit areas to bring food, water and tents to the hundreds of thousands of people caught up in Saturday's quake, said Cao Junliang, an aid spokesman from the tourist city of Jiujiang.

The official Xinhua news agency said Sunday that 13 people had died and more than 450 were injured in the 5.7-magnitude quake, believed to be the strongest to strike the region in half a century.

Initially 14 people were thought to have died and some newspapers were saying Sunday that the toll was as high as 16.

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