PLA and PAP troops head to Lushan for post-quake relief

By Guo Fengkuan and Nie Hongjie

CHENGDU, June 2 — An earthquake of 6.1-magnitude on the depth of 17km hit Lushan, a county beneath the administration of Ya’an Metropolis in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, at 17:00 on June 1. Three minutes later, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake on the depth of 18km was noticed in Baoxing, one other county beneath the administration of Ya’an, at 17:03.

Instantly after the earthquake, the joint operations commanding heart beneath the PLA Western Theater Command activated the Stage-3 emergency response plan promptly. The Ya’an Navy Sub-command beneath the Sichuan Provincial Navy Command organized about 190 troops and militiamen to hold out the first-round reduction work within the epicenter space.

Over two-hundred service members assigned to the detachments of the Chinese language Folks’s Armed Police Power (PAP) Sichuan Corps arrived on the web site with particular emergency reduction devices and gear. They inspected the scenario and carried out hazard elimination and rescue operations.

As of 9:00 pm of June 1st, the earthquakes had minimize off roads in Lushan County, and killed 4, injured 14, and destroyed some homes in Baoxing County.