At least 400 people died and a further 10,000 were in need of urgent medical attention after a strong earthquake on Wednesday hit the remote northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai, near the Tibetan border.
Beijing dispatched hundreds of troops to Qinghai Province's Yushu county and some aid shipments from private organisations have set off from the provincial capital, Xining.
“I see injured people everywhere. The biggest problem now is that we lack tents, we lack medical equipment, medicine and medical workers,” Zhuohuaxia, a local spokesman, told the Xinhua news agency.
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