In China, soldiers with sniffer dogs and life detectors kept searching in the rubble today for survivors after a quake hit a densely-inhabited town in southwest Yunnan Province yesterday. The 5.8-magnitude tremor, which jolted Yingjiang County of the Province near the border with Myanmar, has left 25 people dead and 250 others injured. Doctors said 134 people were in serious condition. The earthquake destroyed more than 18,000 houses and damaged around 50,000 others. Rescuers were ordered to search every damaged building for survivors. More than 6,100 people, including soldiers, police officers and medical staff engaged in the rescue operation, saved at least 40 trapped people and sent more than 200 injured people to hospital. The quake first hit the county at 12:58 p.m. local time, followed by seven aftershocks measuring up to 4.7 on the Richter scale.