A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rocked a largely Tibetan region in north-west China yesterday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, more than a year after a 7.1 magnitude tremor killed 2,700 people in the same area.

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More than 1,300 people were feared dead today after flash floods and landslides struck north-west China.

Landslides killed at least 80 people and left an estimated 2,000 missing today in north-west China, the latest disaster caused by widespread flooding in the country.

AN attacker with a cleaver hacked to death seven children and two adults at a kindergarten in north-west China yesterday, the latest in a string of savage assaults on the country’s schools. Eleven other children were wounded.

A landslide swept over a village in north-west China covering dozens of homes and leaving at least 17 dead and 11 missing, reports said today.

Rescuers evacuated thousands of rural residents from north-west China after extreme cold and blizzards killed four people and left half a million snowed under.

A SECOND man has died of pneumonic plague in north-west China, in an outbreak that prompted authorities to lock down a town where about a dozen people were infected with the highly contagious deadly lung disease, a state news agency said.

A suicide bomber has killed himself and a police officer in a department store in north-west China.