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Beijing: The death toll from a powerful aftershock in a region of central China devastated by an earlier earthquake has risen to three, and more than 3,000 houses have been destroyed, China's state media reported.
The magnitude 6.0 aftershock hit Monday in Sichuan province and nearby Shaanxi and Gansu, collapsing buildings and cutting highways, power and water supplies and communications, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday.
Xinhua cited local officials as saying two people were killed and 29 injured in the town of Yaodu, and more than 3,200 houses were ruined there and two other towns nearby. One person died and six were injured in Wenxian in Gansu province, Xinhua said.
Sichuan and some nearby provinces were devastated by a 7.9 magnitude quake on May 12 that killed nearly 70,000 people and left 5 million homeless. The region since has been hit by scores of aftershocks.
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