More than 150 people were killed and 5,700 injured when a strong earthquake hit a mountainous part of southwestern China on Saturday, destroying thousands of homes and triggering landslides. The shallow earthquake struck Sichuan province on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau just after 8:00 am, prompting a major rescue operation in the same area where 87,000 people were reported dead or missing in a massive quake in 2008.

More than 100 people were killed and 3,000 injured when a strong earthquake shook southwest China Saturday, wrecking homes and triggering landslides in an area devastated by a major tremor in 2008. The shallow earthquake struck Sichuan on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau just after 8:00 am, triggering a major rescue operation in the province where 87,000 people were reported dead or missing five years ago.

Shanghai, Apr 8 (EFE).- A man died from the H7N9 strain of bird flu in Shanghai, raising the death toll from the disease to seven in eastern China, where the number of cases of the illness rose to 24 in eight days, health officials said Monday. The latest victim, a 65-year-old man whose family name is He, died in hospital Sunday. His disease was diagnosed after he died. Another three people have been infected, one in the province of Anhui and two in Jiangsu, both regions of eastern China, health officials said.

The number of dead pigs found in a river which runs through Shanghai had reached nearly 15,000, officials and reports said Tuesday, as a newspaper claimed the government was concealing the true tally. The images of dead pigs in China's commercial hub have proved a huge embarrassment for the city, which is seeking to become an international financial centre. Shanghai city workers retrieved 369 bodies from the Huangpu River on Monday, bringing the municipality's total to 10,164 since the first were found earlier this month, the city government said in a statement.