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21 missing after landslide buries Sichuan villages
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July 27, 2010, Tuesday
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Twenty one people are missing after a rain-triggered landslide flattened a village in southwest China's Sichuan Province this morning.
About 100,000 cubic meters of rock and mud slid down Ermanshan Mountain near Shuanghe Village, Hanyuan County, Ya'an City, at around 5am today, destroying the houses at the foot of the mountain, local officials said.
More than 4,000 villagers were evacuated from the area this morning.
The Ya'an City government has established a team to coordinate the search and rescue work. Xu Mengjia, secretary of the Ya'an city committee of the Communist Party of China, is at the scene to command the search and rescue work.
Heavy rains have pounded southwest China recently.
Yesterday, a landslide near the China-Myanmar border in Drung-Nu Autonomous County of Gongshan, southwest China's Yunnan Province, left 11 injured and another 11 missing. The search for the missing 11 continued today.
About 100,000 cubic meters of rock and mud slid down Ermanshan Mountain near Shuanghe Village, Hanyuan County, Ya'an City, at around 5am today, destroying the houses at the foot of the mountain, local officials said.
More than 4,000 villagers were evacuated from the area this morning.
The Ya'an City government has established a team to coordinate the search and rescue work. Xu Mengjia, secretary of the Ya'an city committee of the Communist Party of China, is at the scene to command the search and rescue work.
Heavy rains have pounded southwest China recently.
Yesterday, a landslide near the China-Myanmar border in Drung-Nu Autonomous County of Gongshan, southwest China's Yunnan Province, left 11 injured and another 11 missing. The search for the missing 11 continued today.
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