"Beijing: Twenty-two people were rescued by firefighters from the rubble, two days after a strong earthquakestruck northwest China's Gansu Province that claimed at least 95 lives and left over a thousand injured. Twenty-two survivors have been pulled out of the debris by the firefighters after a 6.6 magnitude quake rocked the remote region, local authorities said. The provincial fire department deployed 520 firefighters, 70 fire trucks and five sniffer dogs to join rescue efforts after the quake jolted the border of Minxian and Zhangxian counties in the city of Dingxi, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Firefighters have relocated 3,753 people to safety and set up 826 tents for those affected by the earthquake that had claimed at least 95 lives by Tuesday night, according to the provincial fire department."
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