Rescuers brave freezing temperatures as China quake kills more than 100 - BBC News
At least 118 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck a rural province in north-west China.
The BBC has been speaking to Wang Yi, the Chief commander of the BlueSky Search & Rescue Team, Gansu about the status of rescue operations.

Mr Wang said that number of casualties of the quake would "definitely rise though not by much". He also said that the sub zero temperatures in Gansu were "too cold to bear" which would have an impact on how many survivors could be rescued.

"Mainly it’s the temperature, the weather. Secondly it’s the altitude. The place is colder than Turkey (which also recently experienced a devastating earthquake). It’s-15C. For teams from the south (which is warmer) this is hard to endure."

He added that "not too many" survivors had been found since his team had arrived there on Tuesday morning.

"The team on the ground is checking (house to house for survivors). I think around the town there shouldn’t be much problem, because we have a lot of search and rescue resources there," he said.

"The first batch of minor injuries have all come out. Now we need to dig deeper. But there are no big buildings in the area. So it will rise, but it won’t be much. Because if it’s a whole collapsed building, then this will lead to high casualties. But these are flat civilian’s houses. They are old houses, some made of clay and mud. There are no high buildings.