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September 1, 2008

CHINA: Deadly earthquake renders 258,000 homeless

BEIJING (ABC News - AP), September 1, 2008: Report by Anita Chang, Associated Press Writer. An elderly woman sits beside her damaged house, following an earthquake which hit the Lazha Village in Panzhihua of southwest China's Sichuan province Sunday, August 31, 2008. Chinese rescue teams carrying tents, quilts and sacks of rice rushed Sunday to reach survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 27 people, turned tens of thousands of homes into rubble and cracked reservoirs. The 6.1-magnitude quake struck Sichuan province on Saturday along the same fault line as the May 12 earthquake that killed nearly 70,000. (AP Photo/Colour China Photo)(AP)