(Yicai Global) Sept. 16 -- Three people are confirmed dead and 60 injured after a magnitude 6 earthquake struck Lu county in China’s southwestern Sichuan province at 4.33 a.m. today. 

Rescue teams get to work after Sichuan’s earthquake relief headquarters triggered a level-two emergency response.

An elderly woman stands in the doorway of an emergency tent set up by the local authorities to shelter residents affected by the quake.

A rescue worker carries an elderly woman to an evacuation vehicle.

Fallen rubble litters the streets in the wake of the temblor.

Sichuan’s Forest Fire Department musters in readiness to help in rescue efforts.

Editor: Futura Costaglione