CHENGDU, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Nineteen people were killed and 263 were injured in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake which struck a remote area in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Tuesday night, local authorities said Wednesday night.
The dead include eight tourists and two local residents. The identities of the rest nine were not yet known, said Liu Zuoming, Communist Party chief of the Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba.
Ten people were in serious conditions, including three in critical conditions, the information office of the provincial government said in the latest casualties update.
Four seriously injured were transferred to the Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital in the provincial capital of Chengdu for better treatment on Wednesday.
The earthquake hit Jiuzhaigou County at 9:19 p.m on Tuesday at a depth of 20 kilometers, according to China Earthquake Networks Center.
Jiuzhaigou is a popular tourist destination in the mountains on the eastern edge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is part of the Aba prefecture and is known for its ethnic minority communities, mountainous landscape, and stunning scenery.
Source：XINHUANET
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