Strong aftershock rattles Sichuan as officials shift focus to reconstruction

Thirty-one people were injured when a magnitude 5.4 aftershock jolted Gongxian county in Yibin, Sichuan province, on Saturday, following the magnitude 6.0 earthquake that rocked the county last week, the city government said.

Twenty-one of the injured have been hospitalized for treatment, but none of them is in critical condition, Li Tinggen, secretary-general of the Yibin municipal government, said at a news conference on Sunday.

The Changning earthquake, at 10:55 pm on June 17, left 13 people dead and 226 injured, forcing the evacuation of 81,396 as of Friday.