BREAKING: A magnitude 6.0 earthquake collapsed homes, killed at least two people and injured dozens in southwest China's Sichuan province, state media reported.
BEIJING — An earthquake collapsed homes, killed at least two people and injured dozens Thursday in southwest China’s Sichuan province, state media reported.It struck at 4:33 a.m. in Luxian county at a depth of 10 kilometers , the official Xinhua News Agency said.
State broadcaster CCTV said that 60 people were injured, three seriously, and 35 houses had collapsed.Western China is regularly hit by earthquakes. A magnitude-7.9 quake in May 2008 left nearly 90,000 people dead in Sichuan, many of them in collapsed schools and other poorly constructed buildings.
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