The hotel, which were about 2 thousand people, partially collapsed after the earthquake in Sichuan province, 500 people were evacuated. This was stated by the fire Department of the province.
It is reported that the lobby of the hotel “Tiantan” in the area of the national Park Jiuzhaigou collapsed after strong aftershocks. Employees of fire and rescue services managed to bring about 500 people to the Parking lot.
It is noted that the access to hotel is difficult due to the fact that it is located in mountainous terrain, and after the earthquake in some places the road is littered with stones.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 occurred in 21.19 local time in Jiuzhaigou in Ngawa-Tibetan-Camscom Autonomous district of Sichuan province.
Later, the Chinese seismological centre said that the earthquake magnitude was 7. After that there were more than 100 aftershocks.
Earlier, the national Commission of China for the liquidation of consequences of emergency situations said that an earthquake could kill hundreds of people, thousands could suffer. In the seismological Bureau of Sichuan reported that under the rubble in the area of the national Park Jiuzhaigou is about 100 tourists.
To date, we know about the five dead and 63 wounded, 24 destroyed thousands of homes.
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