Relief to Chinese earthquake victims

Relief workers were rushing tents and other supplies to more than 126,000 people left homeless by an earthquake in China’s southwest that killed at least four people.

Nearly 600 people were injured in the magnitude-5.6 quake, centred on Ludian county in Yunnan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The temblor collapsed 18,556 houses, including mud-and-wood dwellings that were damaged by temblors last November in the earthquake-prone region. It said nearly one-third of the county’s 370,000 people lost their homes.