Scores remain missing
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August 21, 2010, Saturday
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RESCUE crews searched yesterday for scores of people left missing and feared dead in southwest China's Yunnan Province after torrential rains triggered massive mudslides during a summer plagued by deadly rains and flooding.
Rainfall hampered efforts to find 80 people missing in Puladi township, a remote mountain community.
Hillsides loosened by rain crashed down on the riverside township early Wednesday, covering all but the tallest buildings with a layer of mud and rock several meters thick.
Yesterday, rescuers had recovered six more bodies, bringing the number of deaths to 12, said Hou Xinrong, deputy head of the Drung-Nu Autonomous County of Gongshan County.
The muslides struck Puladi Township in Gongshan about 1:30am on Wednesday.
In another development, 16 people were killed and 66 others remained missing in rain-triggered floods and landslides in southwest China's Sichuan Province over the past week, a local official said yesterday.
On Thursday, two train carriages plunged into a river after floods destroyed a bridge on a railway line in the province.
No one was injured as the train had made an emergency stop to let off passengers before it attempted to cross the river.
Rainfall hampered efforts to find 80 people missing in Puladi township, a remote mountain community.
Hillsides loosened by rain crashed down on the riverside township early Wednesday, covering all but the tallest buildings with a layer of mud and rock several meters thick.
Yesterday, rescuers had recovered six more bodies, bringing the number of deaths to 12, said Hou Xinrong, deputy head of the Drung-Nu Autonomous County of Gongshan County.
The muslides struck Puladi Township in Gongshan about 1:30am on Wednesday.
In another development, 16 people were killed and 66 others remained missing in rain-triggered floods and landslides in southwest China's Sichuan Province over the past week, a local official said yesterday.
On Thursday, two train carriages plunged into a river after floods destroyed a bridge on a railway line in the province.
No one was injured as the train had made an emergency stop to let off passengers before it attempted to cross the river.
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