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Earthquake kills more than 100 in north-west China

At least 118 people have been killed and another 220 injured following an earthquake on Monday night in north-west China, state media report.

The 5.9 magnitude quake struck Gansu province around midnight, bringing down buildings there and in Qinghai province to the south. Emergency workers are braving freezing conditions to try and help people in the high-altitude area.

A second quake struck neighbouring Xinjiang hours later on Tuesday. The damage from that 5.5 magnitude strike was not immediately clear. Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered full rescue efforts to Gansu, one of China's poorest regions.

Gansu lies between the Tibetan and Loess plateaus and borders Mongolia. The Monday night quake struck the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, an administrative region for China's Muslim Hui people.

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