Quake kills more than 150, injures about 5,500 in China

BEIJING - A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 156 people and injuring about 5,500 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.The earthquake, China's worst in three years, occurred at 8.02 a.m. in Lushan county near Ya'an city and the epicenter had a depth of 12 k...

 
 
 
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