BEIJING (AP) ? A series of earthquakes jolted a mountainous part of southwestern China on Friday, collapsing houses, triggering landslides and killing at least 43 people. In 2008, a severe earthquake in Sichuan province, just north of Yunnan, killed nearly 90,000 people, with many of the deaths blamed on poorly built buildings, including schools. State-run China Central Television showed several hundred people crowded into a school athletic field in Yiliang's county seat ? a sizeable town spread in a mountain valley along a river. Xinhua said the provincial government had sent work teams to the quake-hit areas and the civil affairs department was shipping thousands of tents, blankets and coats to the areas.
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