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At least one dead after new aftershock rattles China
At least one person has been killed and 400 injured when a powerful 5.8 magnitude aftershock rattled the Chinese quake area on Sunday afternoon, state television reported.
- Agencies
- Published: 09:17 May 25, 2008
Chengdu: At least one person has been killed and 400 injured when a powerful 5.8 magnitude aftershock rattled the Chinese quake area on Sunday afternoon, state television reported.
More than 70,000 houses were toppled becaise of the aftershock. Office towers in Beijing, 1,300 kilometers away, swayed from the impact.
The death toll from China's earthquake could surpass 80,000, with the confirmed death toll standing at more than 62,000, the government announced on Sunday.
The toll from the May 12 quake rose to 62,664, with another 23,775 people missing, Cabinet spokesman Guo Weimin said.
Nearly 70 dams scarred by the force of China's most powerful earthquake in three decades were in danger of bursting, the government said.
Risk of heavy rainfall has added to worries about relief efforts for millions of homeless survivors.
Meanwhile, a survivor was pulled alive from the rubble of China's earthquake 266 hours after the big tremor hit, state television reported on Sunday.
Xiao Zhihu, an 80-year-old paralysed man, was rescued in Mianzhu city on Friday.
He had been trapped under a collapsed pillar of his house, and survived after being fed by his wife, the television report said.
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