China erecting temporary housing units after earthquake destroyed 14,000 homes

Moveable plank houses for earthquake victims are set up in Meipo Village, Jishishan County in northwest China’s Gansu Province (Fan Peishen/Xinhua via AP)

Hundreds of temporary one-room housing units were set up on Thursday in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and killed at least 146 people, state media reported.

The death toll rose by nine as search teams dug through heavy mudslides that had inundated two villages, a city official in Qinghai province said on Friday morning. Three people remained missing in the mudslides.