China quake death toll rises to 9,219

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The death toll from a Monday earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province has climbed to 9,219, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. <br/><br/>The 7.8-magnitude quake has left 9,219 people dead in eight affected provinces and municipality including Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Yunnan, Shanxi, Guizhou and Hubei, the ministry said in a release issued at 7 a.m. Tuesday. <br/><br/>Of the killed, 8,993 were in Sichuan, 132 in Gansu, 85 in Shaanxi, eight in Chongqing and one in Yunnan, the ministry said. <br/><br/>The tremor also leveled some 500,000 rooms in the affected areas. <br/>

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