Quake Left 169,000 Homeless, Report Says

An earthquake this week in southwestern China injured 406 people and left more than 169,000 homeless, an official newspaper said. Chinese seismologists initially had said there were no reports of casualties or damage in the magnitude 5.1 quake Monday in Wuding County, Yunnan province. But the China Daily described damage as widespread. The newspaper said that 56 schools, 16 reservoirs, 56 bridges and a power station were destroyed and that 169,242 people lost their homes. Eight of the injured were seriously hurt, the paper said, and a woman in a nearby county was killed when she fell. The homeless have been resettled and have begun receiving aid. Authorities allotted $36,000 to fund relief work, the newspaper said.