Three women were pulled out alive from rubble Monday, five days after a 7.1-magnitude quake hit Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China, rescuers said.
More than 40,000 head of livestock were killed in the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, northwest China's Qinghai Province, last week.
China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin has called for unity in northwest China's quake zone, where people have been fighting against chilly weather and altitude sickness to carry out relief operations.
Power supplies in the northwestern China quake zone were almost fully restored, authorities said Monday.
Northwest China's Qinghai provincial government Monday pledged to care for children orphaned in last week's earthquake in Yushu county.
All 45 villages in the quake-stricken Yushu prefecture had contact with the outside world restored Monday after telecommunications resumed in the county seats last week, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Law and order in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture after the earthquake can be guaranteed, said Fan Yulong, chief of staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Yushu, in an exclusive by China Daily.
The identity of a dead reporter is still unconfirmed, a source from the rescue headquarters in Yushu said.
The death toll has climbed to 1,944 from a devastating earthquake in northwest China's Qinghai Province, with 216 people still missing, the rescue headquarters said Monday.
Jiana Mani Heap, one of the three state-level cultural relics in Yushu, has begun collapsing after the recent 7.1 quake.
Fan Yulong, the chief commander of Yushu paramilitary police, told Chinadaily that no death or escape was reported in Yushu Detention Center, the only prison damaged during the 7.1-magnitude earthquake. More than 100 supectss have been transferred to safety.
The flow of traffic into Yushu is still under pressure six days after the 7.1 quake jolted the area.
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