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August 26, 2000 

  

BEIJING (AP) - An aftershock from a deadly earthquake in southwest China has injured 406 people and left 169,000 homeless, an official newspaper said Friday.


Although Chinese seismologists had initially said there were no reports of casualties or damage in the magnitude-5.1 shock Monday in Wuding county, Yunnan province, the China Daily described damage as widespread.


It said 56 schools, 16 reservoirs, 56 bridges and a power station were destroyed and that 169,242 people lost their homes.


Eight of the injured were seriously hurt, it said. A woman in a nearby county also was killed when she fell while trying to climb out of her home, the newspaper said.


It said the homeless have been resettled and have received a first batch of aid. Authorities allotted 300,000 yuan (dlrs 36,000) to fund relief work, the newspaper said.


It said the quake was one of a series of aftershocks from a temblor in 1995 in Wuding that killed 46 people and injured 11,600.



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