China erecting temporary housing units after earthquake destroyed 14,000 homes

Hundreds of temporary one-room housing units were set up on Thursday in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and killed at least 146 people, state media reported. The death toll rose by nine as search teams dug through heavy mudslides that had inundated two villages, a city official in Qinghai province said on Friday morning. Three people remained missing in the mudslides. Advertisement State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of cranes lifting white, box-like housing units and lining them up in an open field in Meipo, a village in Gansu province. About 260 had…