Quake leaves 420,000 homeless
28 November 2005
More than 420,000 slept outside in Jiangxi and Hubei provinces as aftershocks from Saturday's earthquake continued to rattle the area, reported the South China Morning Post. The 5.7 earthquake, which killed at least 15 people wrecked housing in Jiangxi's Jiujiang county and Ruichang city. Beijing had started sending relief supplies, but little had reached the area.