China earthquake: Emergency workers dig through rubble in freezing temperatures

Chinese rescue teams are battling in subzero temperatures to save victims trapped in rubble after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the northern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, killing at least 118 people and injuring more than 500.

The earthquake’s epicentre was in Jishishan county, about 800 miles southwest of Beijing, and severely jolted the remote and mountainous provinces of Gansu and neighbouring Qinghai around midnight, trapping people in their beds as their homes collapsed around them.

Roads were damaged and communication and power lines knocked out, leaving many to huddle in blankets around street fires in the bitter cold as temperatures plummeted to as low as -14C.

Gansu province was the worst affected, suffering the majority of deaths. More than 4,700 houses had been damaged, the provincial authorities said in a Tuesday morning news conference. The number of missing people in the aftermath is as yet unknown.

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