By AFPMore by this AuthorBeijing,The toll from a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China rose to 12 dead and 134 injured on Tuesday as rescuers pulled bodies and survivors from wrecked buildings. Images from Changning County showed an electricity pole knocked down on the roof of a building, a hole in a brick home and broken windows on the street. An early warning alarm system was triggered in the provincial capital Chengdu about one minute before the earthquake struck, Xinhua said. The alert rang 10 seconds before it hit Yibin. In February, three earthquakes hit Rongxian county in the province, killing two people and injuring 12 others -- casualties that residents blamed on fracking.

Source: Daily Nation June 18, 2019 03:33 UTC