An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred in Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture, and as of 18:00 today, 13 people were killed in Shimian County, Ya'an City

　　At 12:52 on September 5, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred in Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province (29.6 degrees north latitude, 102.1 degrees east longitude), with a focal depth of 16 kilometers.

　　Affected by the earthquake, as of 18:00 today, 13 people have been killed in Shimian County, Ya'an City, and some towns have been affected to varying degrees.

In terms of transportation, the domestic National Highway 108 and Provincial Highway 217 were interrupted; the roads in Wanggangping Town, Caoke Township, and Xinmin Township, Shimian County were interrupted; in terms of communications, some trunk lines and local networks were damaged, and 79 base stations were interrupted and retired; Line tripped, substation out of service.

　　After the earthquake, Ya'an City quickly launched the second-level emergency response to the earthquake disaster, and established the Ya'an "9.5" Luding Earthquake Relief Headquarters.

According to the relevant situation of the disaster, the Ya'an Earthquake Relief Headquarters decided to upgrade the earthquake disaster emergency response level to Level 1 in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Ya'an Earthquake Emergency Response Plan".

At the same time, in accordance with the provisions of the "Ya'an City Natural Disaster Relief Emergency Plan", Ya'an City's first-level natural disaster relief emergency response was launched.

　　At the same time, more than 2,100 people from Ya'an City dispatched emergency rescue, armed police, fire fighting, medical treatment, public security and other rescue forces to the earthquake-stricken area immediately to carry out personnel search and rescue, wounded treatment, road rescue, and mass transfer and resettlement. The rest of the rescue teams have been assembled. Standby.

Meishan City and Liangshan Prefecture dispatched more than 120 fire rescue teams in 29 vehicles to assist Ya'an.

　　At present, the injured have been sent to hospital for treatment.

Ya'an City is going all out to search and rescue the trapped people to ensure that no one is missed; go all out to rescue the injured to minimize casualties; go all out to transfer the masses to avoid danger to ensure that no casualties are caused by secondary disasters.

(Headquarters reporter Zheng Yi)