18 students killed in landslide
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October 6, 2012, Saturday
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All 18 elementary school students buried in a landslide were confirmed dead yesterday, while one other person also died after a hillside collapsed on part of a village in mountainous Yunnan Province in the southwest.
The Tiantou Elementary School was buried on Thursday when the hillside collapsed in Zhenhe, a village in Yunnan's Yiliang County, the county government said on its website. All 18 students buried in the school were confirmed dead, the government said. The body of a 19th victim was found yesterday.
The government also said that a person injured in the landslide was hospitalized.
The landslide dammed a river, causing its water to pool 15 meters across and 7 meters deep around the buried area, hampering rescue efforts and forcing the evacuation of 800 other people, the government said. Rescue teams removed the blockage and the water was subsiding.
While officials have yet to give a cause for the landslide, that part of Yunnan has been lashed by rain and is prone to earthquakes. A series of earthquakes on September 7 left 81 people dead and 800 others injured and devastated parts of Yiliang county, which are still recovering.
Thursday was a holiday across China, but the students who were killed had been attending school to make up for days missed after the quake, officials said. Their school was damaged in the quake and they were sent to Tiantou temporarily.
The victims' families were each granted 20,000 yuan (US$3,160) as condolences in accordance with the amounts received by families of victims of the earthquakes that hit the county in September.
The Tiantou Elementary School was buried on Thursday when the hillside collapsed in Zhenhe, a village in Yunnan's Yiliang County, the county government said on its website. All 18 students buried in the school were confirmed dead, the government said. The body of a 19th victim was found yesterday.
The government also said that a person injured in the landslide was hospitalized.
The landslide dammed a river, causing its water to pool 15 meters across and 7 meters deep around the buried area, hampering rescue efforts and forcing the evacuation of 800 other people, the government said. Rescue teams removed the blockage and the water was subsiding.
While officials have yet to give a cause for the landslide, that part of Yunnan has been lashed by rain and is prone to earthquakes. A series of earthquakes on September 7 left 81 people dead and 800 others injured and devastated parts of Yiliang county, which are still recovering.
Thursday was a holiday across China, but the students who were killed had been attending school to make up for days missed after the quake, officials said. Their school was damaged in the quake and they were sent to Tiantou temporarily.
The victims' families were each granted 20,000 yuan (US$3,160) as condolences in accordance with the amounts received by families of victims of the earthquakes that hit the county in September.
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