URUMQI (China): Rescue workers with search dogs combed the rubble of flattened villages in near freezing weather in northwest China on Tuesday, in hopes of finding survivors from an earthquake that killed at least 265 people.
Monday's quake, the deadliest to hit the Xinjiang region since the Communists took power in 1949, also injured 4,000 people, said officials in Bachu county, the worst-hit area about 1,000km from the regional capital, Urumqi.
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