The death toll from the catastrophic earthquake in China has risen to 179 and estimates of the number of injured now range between 6.700 and 10.000, world agencies report, adding that attempts to bring food supplies to the devastated areas of Sichuan province continue.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has arrived in Ja'an, the capital of hard-hit Lushan County, to personally command rescue operations
As the Associated Press (AP) reports, the terrified population spent last night in their cars, tents and temporary shelters. The earthquake, which Chinese seismologists estimated at seven degrees, and the American one at 6,6 degrees, occurred on Saturday morning, at a time when the residents of Sichuan province were at home, some having breakfast, some still in bed.
Entire villages were razed to the ground, and landslides and landslides cut roads, telephone cables and power lines. The same mountainous region near Tibet that was hit five years ago in a catastrophic earthquake with a magnitude of 7,9 was hit.
Rescue action
About 90.000 people lost their lives in it. Columns of ambulance, fire and military vehicles have formed along the main roads trying to deliver food to the population.
Let them turn back, in an effort to find detours, given the extensive damage to the roads. In some areas, rescuers are using dynamite to clear buried roads, with rains that fell last night making the job more difficult, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has arrived in Ja'an, the capital of hard-hit Lushan County, to personally command rescue operations, according to Xinhua.
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