A mass incident of seismic proportion broke out in the evening of 5 July 2009 at Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang. ABC China correspondent Stephen McDonell filed this report from Beijing for the PM program.ABC – PM | Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:36:00 +1000
The latest official death toll has risen to 156. In the meantime, Internet traffic and telephone connections to Urumqi are said to be cut off. Social networking sites such as Twitter, Youtube and Flickr are blocked in most Chinese cities.
Just for now. And I’ll follow up with a bit more detailed discussions tomorrow.
