China: 6.6 earthquake kills 1
The quake left at least 19 others injured.
"Many houses collapsed and we are investigating the casualties. The aftershocks seem non-stopping," an official with the town's Mangfei village told Xinhua.
The telecommunication service is occasionally disrupted, he added.
"The quake at 9:49 p.m. (Beijing Time), with a focal depth of five kilometers, jolted the Jinggu Dai and Yi Autonomous County with a population of 290,000, said an official with the county's publicity department," China's Xinhua news agency reported.
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