Landslide buries 47 people in China’s southwestern Yunnan province
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Rescue efforts under way in mountainous area of southwestern China after pre-dawn disaster.
Rescue efforts are under way in southwestern China’s mountainous Yunnan province after at least 47 people were buried in a landslide.
State news agency Xinhua reported that the disaster struck just before 6am (22:00 GMT on Sunday) in the village of Liangshui, beneath the town of Tangfang in Zhenxiong County.
Authorities said rescuers were trying to find victims buried in 18 separate houses. Xinhua showed footage of men in orange jumpsuits and hard hats picking their way though piles of concrete blocks and twisted steel. There was snow on some of the rubble and on buildings that were still standing.
The cause of the landslide was not immediately known.
Authorities said about 500 people had been evacuated.
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