Death toll from China quake rises to 81
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![A man stands in front of a damaged house in Xinlong Village of Weining County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 7, 2012. A 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit the border area of Yiliang County of Yunnan and Weining County of Guizhou Province at 11:19 a.m. The quake has afflicted some 6,300 people and damaged more than 1,540 houses in Weining till 5 p.m. Friday. [Photo/Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20120909/001372acd0b511b680d718.jpg "A man stands in front of a damaged house in Xinlong Village of Weining County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 7, 2012. A 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit the border area of Yiliang County of Yunnan and Weining County of Guizhou Province at 11:19 a.m. The quake has afflicted some 6,300 people and damaged more than 1,540 houses in Weining till 5 p.m. Friday. [Photo/Xinhua]") |
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A man stands in front of a damaged house in Xinlong Village of Weining County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 7, 2012. A 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit the border area of Yiliang County of Yunnan and Weining County of Guizhou Province at 11:19 a.m. The quake has afflicted some 6,300 people and damaged more than 1,540 houses in Weining till 5 p.m. Friday. [Photo/Xinhua] |
A 3.7-magnitude aftershock that occurred in southwest China's Yunnan Province Saturday evening killed one person, the latest victim following multiple earthquakes that hit a mountainous area in the province on Sept. 7.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs said Sunday that the quakes have killed 81 people in the city of Zhaotong.
The latest victim was a two-year-old child who was fatally injured after being buried under a fallen bounding wall when the aftershock struck.
Yunnan has received 59.4 million (9.43 million U.S. dollars) in yuan quake relief funds thus far, the ministry said.
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