BEIJING: One million people affected by a major earthquake in southwest China's Yunnan province are in desperate need of food and supplies, but rescuers have been forced to travel by horseback due to badly damaged roads, officials said yesterday.
The deadly 6.2 Richter-scale tremor which happened late on Monday killed at least 16 people and injured about 300 others according to the latest tally, a Yunnan seismological bureau official said.
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