<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Chinese earthquake survivors recovered in hospital as rescue teams rushed to deliver supplies on Thursday, the third day since the country’s deadliest quake in years killed 135 people.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The toll rose from the previous day’s 134, state news agency Xinhua said, as rescuers continued to search for victims buried as the soil liquified in northwestern Qinghai Province.</div><div><br></div><div>Almost 1,000 were injured across Qinghai and neighbouring Gansu province after the strong, shallow tremor hit the region on Monday night.</div><div><br></div><div>At the Jishishan County People’s Hospital in Gansu, near the epicentre of the quake, doctors attended to survivors with mild injuries on Thursday, administering intravenous drips and examining X-rays in buildings visibly damaged by the tremor.</div><div><br></div><div>“I really want to go home,” one patient, a middle-aged woman waiting to receive surgery on her injured leg, told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>“But my place has been destroyed, so I wonder where I can go,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>“People are still worried about the aftershocks, they can’t sleep well because there is no safe place”, a Jishishan county official told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>The US Geological Survey said Monday night’s magnitude-5.9 quake struck at 11:59 pm with an epicentre about 100 kilometers from Gansu’s provincial capital, Lanzhou.</div><div><br></div><div>Dozens of smaller aftershocks followed and officials warned that tremors with a magnitude of more than 5.0 were possible in the next few days.</div><div><br></div><div>Rescuers from across the country appeared to have reached more survivors in rural Gansu overnight, with AFP reporters seeing that large numbers of government-issued blue tents had been put up in Jishishan to replace improvised shelters built by residents immediately after the quake.</div><div><br></div><div>In Qinghai province, 12 people remain missing after a “sand boil” disaster on Tuesday buried people alive and in Zhongchuan Township, according to Xinhua.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>