A 6.2-magnitude earthquake in China’s Gansu Province leaves at least 127 dead

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake in China’s Gansu Province has left at least 127 people dead and hundreds of others injured.

As reported, as of Tuesday evening, 127 people, including113 people in Gansu and 14 in Qinghai were killed amid an earthquake that jolted China‘s Gansu Province at midnight Monday.

Rescuers are racing against time to find survivors trapped under the collapsed buildings after China‘s deadliest earthquake in 10 years.

The shocks rattled impoverished Gansu province, leaving over 155,000 buildings damaged.

State-run newspaper the People’s Daily reported an additional 14 deaths and 198 injuries in Haidong, neighbouring Qinghai province.

Rescue workers and firefighters are working in extreme weather conditions with a minimum temperature of -12 C in Haidong, Northwest China’s Qinghai Province.

Haidong is located about 20 kilometres away from Jishishan county, Gansu Province.

The serving residents in the affected areas fled into the freezing streets for safety as emergency vehicles filled the roads.

 

Local officials in Jishishan county, the worst-hit in Gansu province, reported that more than 5,000 buildings in the area had been damaged.

The Chinese government on the next day of the earthquake, allocated 200 mln yuan (about $28.18 mln) of funds to support disaster relief efforts in the earthquake-hit Gansu & Qinghai provinces in NW China, reports Peoples Daily China.