The number of people killed in the Chinese earthquake has risen to 113, with at least 2,600 injured. Source: AAP
THE earthquake that has struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province has left at least 113 people dead and more than 2,600 injured.
Nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region, Saturday's quake toppled buildings, triggered landslides and disrupted phone and power connections in mountainous Lushan county.
The village of Longmen was hit particularly hard, with authorities saying nearly all the buildings had been destroyed.
Rescuers turned the square outside the Lushan County Hospital into a triage centre, where medical personnel bandaged bleeding victims, according to footage on China Central Television.
Rescuers dynamited boulders that had fallen across roads to reach Longmen and other damaged areas lying farther up the mountain valleys, state media reported.
The official Xinhua News Agency, citing the Sichuan earthquake bureau, said at least 113 people had died.
The government of Ya'an city, which administers Lushan, said in a statement that more than 2,600 people were injured, 330 of them severely.
The quake - measured by China's seismological bureau at magnitude 7.0 and the US Geological Survey at 6.6 - struck the steep hills of Lushan county shortly after 8am local time, when many people were at home, sleeping or having breakfast.
People in their underwear and wrapped in blankets ran into the streets of Ya'an and even the provincial capital of Chengdu, 115 kilometres east of Lushan, photos, video and accounts posted online showed.
The quake's shallow depth, less than 13 kilometres, likely magnified the impact.
It was along that fault line that the devastating magnitude-7.9 quake struck on May 12, 2008, leaving more than 90,000 people dead or missing and presumed dead in one of the worst natural disasters to strike China in recent decades.
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