BEIJING (AP)
— An earthquake earlier this week in southwest China injured
406 people and left 169,000 homeless, an official newspaper said
Friday.
Chinese seismologists
initially had said there were no reports of casualties or damage
in the magnitude-5.1 quake Monday in Wuding county, Yunnan province.
But the China
Daily described damage as widespread. It said 56 schools, 16 reservoirs,
56 bridges and a power station were destroyed and that 169,242
people lost their homes.
Eight of the
injured were seriously hurt, it said. A woman in a nearby county
also was killed when she fell, the newspaper said.
It said the
homeless have been resettled and have received a first portion
of aid. Authorities allotted $36,000 to fund relief work, the
newspaper said.
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