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Chinese quake displaces 100,000

20:46 pm on 8 October 2014

Thousands of rescuers have been deployed in south-west China after a strong earthquake left one person dead and more than 300 injured, with 100,000 displaced.

Quake damaged homes in Yongping, southwestern China's Yunnan province. Photo: AFP

The shallow 6.0 magnitude tremor hit in Yunnan province, close to China's borders with Myanmar and Laos.

The Xinhua news agency said 100 schools were damaged.

School construction is a touchy subject in China, where more than 5000 children died as their schools collapsed on top of them in a huge 2008 earthquake in neighbouring Sichuan province.

Shoddy buildings, with corruption playing a key role, were widely blamed, provoking public anger.