China: 6.2 Richter earthquake devastates Gansu and causes 110 deaths
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the northwestern province of Gansu on Monday night left 111 dead and 140 injured, state news agency Xinhua reported SCMP.
According to Xinhua, the earthquake killed more than 100 people in Gansu province and 11 in neighboring Qinghai province.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday morning called on authorities to "make every effort" to treat the injured, repair infrastructure and resettle affected residents.
The earthquake's epicenter is located in Jishishan County, an ethnic minority autonomous county with a population of about 240,000.
The earthquake caused the collapse of houses in the area and damaged utility infrastructure. Important bridges over the Yellow River were also damaged, making communications difficult.
The intervention is made even more difficult by the very low temperatures that are affecting China this winter and which are putting rescuers and survivors in serious difficulty. In recent days we had written about an impressive cold wave with areas that had exceeded -40 degrees in temperature .
China's health authority, the National Health Commission, has sent medical experts from top hospitals to the disaster area to provide support, state broadcaster CCTV said on Tuesday morning.
Gansu province's two top officials, provincial party secretary Hu Changsheng and governor Ren Zhenhe, also went to the disaster area in the early hours of Tuesday.
The area is central to the People's Republic of China and is the center of numerous industries. The consequences of this serious disaster will also be economic both for China and for global logistics chains.
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