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SW China landslide buries nine

A landslide buried nine people this morning near a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said.

The landslide happened around 5 am following days of heavy rain in Yanjin County in the city of Zhaotong, a spokesman for the county's Communist Party of China (CPC) committee said.

Four people were pulled out of the landslide and taken to a local hospital. Their current condition is unknown, the spokesman said.

Rescue efforts for those who remain buried are under way.



 

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