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June 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Yunnan provincial authorities had sent relief supplies to Ninglang, where the
quake was strongly felt, including 1,100 tents and 3,000 quilts, it said.
The province had also sent a team to the area.
An official in the historic city of Lijiang, which administers Ninglang, said
it was too early to have detailed estimates of casualties and damage.
Separately, a Yanyuan county government official was quoted by Xinhua as
saying that “many” houses in rural areas had collapsed, but he
gave no figure.
“I felt it, but I don’t know about casualties,” another official of
the Yanyuan civil affairs bureau told AFP, adding that the government was
trying to calculate the casualties.
The area is inhabited by the Yi ethnic minority. China estimates there are
around 7.8 million Yi people living in four provinces, including Yunnan and
Sichuan.
The remote and mountainous region regularly suffers quakes. A powerful
earthquake hit Lijiang, a UNESCO world heritage site, in February 1996,
killing 200 people and destroying thousands of mud-walled homes.
An 8.0-magnitude quake rocked Sichuan province on May 12, 2008, killing tens
of thousands and flattening swathes of the province.
Source: AFP
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