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A total of 600 million yuan had already been allocated to the quake zone.
As of Wednesday, the 6.5-magnitude earthquake that struck Ludian County in Yunnan Province had caused 589 deaths and injured more than 2800 people. 230000 people have been evacuated while more than 80000 homes have been destroyed.
Rescuers are still continuing to comb through quake rubble in southwest China, well after the critical 72 hours when finding survivors becomes much less likely.
State media reports earlier on Tuesday also warned that landslides triggered by the quake was creating rapidly growing bodies of water that could unleash more destruction on survivors.
“A huge quake lake containing more than 3,000 cubic metres (106,000 cubic feet) of water has inundated dozens of homes and continues to threaten nearby villages,” state-run Xinhua quoted Chinese officials as saying.
This was the region’s strongest quake in 14 years.
TBP and Agencies