Labour foreign affairs spokesman Leo Brincat has expressed his party's sorrow at the earthquake that hit China's Sichuan region on Monday.

He pointed out that while earthquakes are not rare, this one was particularly strong and left a lot of innocent victims, including some 1,000 teenagers.

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