Strong earthquake kills 367 in China
BEIJING – A strong earthquake in southern China’s Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes Sunday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800.
About 12,000 homes collapsed in Ludian, a densely populated county around 277 miles northeast of Yunnan’s capital, Kunming, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The magnitude-6.1 quake struck at 4:30 p.m. at a depth of 6 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Its epicenter was in Longtoushan township, 14 miles southwest of the city of Zhaotong, the Ludian county seat.
American with Ebola will leave Liberia
ATLANTA – A second American missionary stricken with Ebola is expected to fly Tuesday to the U.S. for treatment, after a colleague who was admitted over the weekend to Emory University Hospital’s infectious disease unit.
A Liberian official confirmed to The Associated Press plans for Nancy Writebol to depart with a medical-evacuation team. The official, Information Minister Lewis Brown, said the evacuation flight was scheduled to leave West Africa between 1 a.m. and 1.30 a.m. local time Tuesday.
Writebol is in good spirits despite her diagnosis, said the pastor of her hometown church in Charlotte, North Carolina, who has spoken with her husband, David.
There is no cure for Ebola, which causes hemorrhagic fever that has killed at least 60 percent of the people it has infected in Africa. Ebola spreads through close contact with bodily fluids and blood, meaning it is not spread as easily as airborne influenza or the common cold.
Rebels kill 10, capture others in Lebanon
BEIRUT – Syrian rebels killed 10 Lebanese troops and likely captured more than a dozen more in a raid on a Lebanese border town, the country’s military chief said, the most serious spillover of violence yet into the tiny country from its neighbor’s civil war.
The capture of Lebanese soldiers and police raised fears the country could become further entangled in the Syrian civil war and could worsen already-brewing sectarian tensions.
As fighting raged Sunday, some residents tried to flee from the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, home to 40,000 residents and 120,000 Syrian refugees.
Associated Press
