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 China said it had dispatched thousands of armed police, soldiers
and firefighters to the scene. Premier Li Keqiang visited the town
on Monday, Xinhua said, urging a quick rescue for those missing and
trapped by debris.
The quake, in a remote part of Yunnan province, caused thousands of
buildings, including schools to collapse, the official Xinhua news
agency reported
The epicenter of the quake was Longtoushan town in the province's
mountainous Ludian county.
Earthquakes frequently strike in the region. A quake in Sichuan
province, also in the southwest, in 2008 killed almost 70,000
people.
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The earthquake was the most severe in the region in a century,
Xinhua said.
(Reporting By Megha Rajagopalan; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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