Update | At least four dead in earthquake near China's Shangri-La
The Xinhua news agency said at least 4 people were killed and six seriously injured after their bus was hit by falling rocks from a landslide
An earthquake struck a remote part of southwest China on Saturday near the popular tourist area of Shangri-La, killing at least four people, state media said.
The 5.8 magnitude quake, which struck at 8.04am on Saturday morning, was centred on Benzilan town in Yunnan province on the border with Sichuan province, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
It struck at a shallow depth of about 10 kilometres.
The official Xinhua news agency said three people were killed and six seriously injured after their tourist bus was hit by falling rocks from a landslide.
“During the earthquake this morning, the swaying the county felt was relatively severe,” Xinhua quoted Liao Wencai, deputy party secretary of Deqin county, as saying.
Benzilan is in Deqin county, roughly 60km from Shangri-La county which is named after the fictional mountain paradise in the James Hilton novel Lost Horizon.
