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		</div><p>At least 111 people were killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in a cold and mountainous region in north-western China, the country’s state media reported.</p>
<p>Search and rescue operations were underway in Gansu province and the neighbouring Qinghai province on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The earthquake left more than 230 people injured, damaged houses and roads, and knocked out power and communication lines, according to the media reports.</p>
<p>State broadcaster CCTV said that 100 people died in the province of Gansu and another 11 in the neighbouring province of Qinghai in the quake, which struck at a depth of six miles just before midnight on Monday.</p>
<p>The quake struck in Gansu’s Jishishan county, about three miles from the provincial boundary with Qinghai. The epicentre was about 800 miles south-west of Beijing, the Chinese capital.</p>
<p>At least 140 people were injured in Qinghai and another 96 in Gansu, according to CCTV and the official Xinhua News Agency.</p>
<p>The US Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at 5.9.</p>
<p>State broadcaster CCTV reported there was damage to water and electricity lines, as well as transportation and communications infrastructure.</p>
<p>The earthquake was felt in Lanzhou, the Gansu provincial capital, about 60 miles north-east of the epicentre.</p>
<p>University students in Lanzhou rushed out of their dorms, according to a social media post that had images showing young people standing outside.</p>
<p>Tents, folding beds and quilts were being sent to the disaster area, CCTV said. It quoted Chinese leader Xi Jinping as calling for an all-out search and rescue effort to minimise the casualties.</p>
<p>Earthquakes are somewhat common in the mountainous area of western China that rises up to form the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau.</p>
<p>Last year in September, at least 74 people were reported killed in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s south-western province of Sichuan, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, where 21 million residents were under a Covid-19 lockdown.</p>
<p>China’s deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.9 magnitude quake in 2008 that killed nearly 90,000 people in Sichuan. The temblor devastated towns, schools and rural communities outside Chengdu, leading to a years-long effort to rebuild with more resistant materials.</p>
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