Soldiers search for survivors in Yongguang village, Minxian county, July 22, 2013. Eighty-seven people in the city of Dingxi and two in the neighboring city of Longnan has been confirmed killed in a 6.6-magnitude quake that jolted the border of Minxian and Zhangxian counties at 7:45 am in Northwest China’s Gansu province. Two helicopters and about 3,000 armed police, firefighters, soldiers and local government staffers have been sent to the quake-hit region to help with rescue work .
Gansu earthquake relief headquarters, MinXian get county border so far a total of Dingxi in earthquake disasters, Longnan and Tianshui,Baiyin in Gannan, Linxia, six city states 22 counties and 204 towns, 123000 people in the affected; That killed 89 people, due to missing 5 people and injured more than 800 people; Emergency relocation of 31600 people .