At least 111 people killed, 230 injured after earthquake in north-west China

A government worker looks at the debris of a house brought down in the earthquake in Jishishan county in northwest China’s Gansu province (Chinatopix via AP)

At least 111 people were killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in a cold and mountainous region in north-western China, the country’s state media reported.

Search and rescue operations were underway in Gansu province and the neighbouring Qinghai province on Tuesday.