Dec. 27, 2004
From correspondents in Beijing
Herald Sun

ONE person is dead, another missing, and 23 injured after a series of earthquakes in southwestern China's Yunnan province, state media and officials have reported.

A total of 47 tremors, some of them as powerful as 5.0 on the Richter scale, struck Yunnan over a 17-hour period on Sunday, the Beijing Times said. Incomplete statistics from rural Shuangbai county showed that one person had died, a Shuangbai official said.

In Binchuan county, one person was missing while collapsing roofs and crumbling walls had injured 23, two of them seriously, the Beijing Times.

The paper reported some material damage to buildings in the area, but gave no details.

Yunnan province in a quake-prone part of China experienced a tremor in August that left more than 125,000 people homeless, killed four and injured nearly 600.

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