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More than 700 evacuated from landslide-hit county in Gansu
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March 3, 2011, Thursday
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MORE than 700 people have been evacuated after a landslide hit a mountainous county in northwest China's Gansu Province last night, local authorities said today.
There is no immediate report of casualties.
The landslide occurred at around 7 pm yesterday. It has destroyed parts of an out-door plaza in the county seat of Dongxiang, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture. Electricity supply was temporarily suspended.
A spokesman with the county government said the people were evacuated for safety concerns, as the landslide caused road subsidence in some sections threatening roadside buildings.
A team of experts sent by the local land resources department to investigate the geological disaster have found the losses sliding mass had been loosen by a rupture of an underground waster water pipeline last year. The earth structure became more unstable when snow and ice was thawing in the spring time.
There is no immediate report of casualties.
The landslide occurred at around 7 pm yesterday. It has destroyed parts of an out-door plaza in the county seat of Dongxiang, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture. Electricity supply was temporarily suspended.
A spokesman with the county government said the people were evacuated for safety concerns, as the landslide caused road subsidence in some sections threatening roadside buildings.
A team of experts sent by the local land resources department to investigate the geological disaster have found the losses sliding mass had been loosen by a rupture of an underground waster water pipeline last year. The earth structure became more unstable when snow and ice was thawing in the spring time.
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