Officials launched an emergency response and dispatched rescue personnel to Gansu and Qinghai provinces just after 6.2 magnitude quake
At least 111 people have been killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in north-west China’s Gansu and Qinghai provinces, according to the state news agency.
Xinhua said that 100 people had died in the province of Gansu and another 11 in neighbouring Qinghai province in the quake, which occurred just before midnight on Monday.
More than 200 people were injured, 96 in Gansu and 124 in Qinghai after the strong, shallow earthquake struck in Gansu’s Jishishan county.
