5.8-magnitude earthquake hits China's Xinjiang, causes injuries

The earthquake in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Thursday afternoon has injured some people and toppled houses, but no deaths have been reported, a local spokesman said. The specific casualties and property losses are being counted, according to the spokesman with the Jiashi County Committee of the Communist Party of China. A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 6:06 p.m. Thursday, said the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter was monitored at the border area between the region's Atux City in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture and Jiashi County in Kashgar.