Survivors look for relatives in China quake rubble

February 25, 2003

BEIJING (AP) — With bloodied hands, survivors dug through rubble and called for their missing loved ones after a powerful earthquake knocked down homes and schools on Monday in western China, officials said. At least 257 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured.
The quake toppled farmhouses on people eating breakfast and schools collapsed on students in Bachu county, near China’s mountainous border with Kyrgyzstan, officials said.
Thousands were left homeless and without shelter overnight in 14-degree temperatures. More than 1,000 homes and schools collapsed in Bachu, a town of 30,000 people, officials said.
The government put the quake’s magnitude at 6.8, while the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said it was a magnitude of 6.3.

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