Earthquake in northwestern China kills at least 131 people a

BEIJING — A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, authorities said Tuesday, reducing homes to rubble, leaving residents outside in a below-freezing winter night and killing 131 people in the nation’s deadliest quake in nine years. The magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck just before midnight on Monday,

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