China Landslide Rescue Operations

The incident happened at about 2:30 pm (local time) yesterday in a village in southwest China's Sichuan province, leaving 5 people missing. Local authorities sent rescuers and the rescue operation ended with the recovery of last missing person's body

Rescuers have pulled 15 people alive from a landslide that slammed into a village in China's eastern Zhejiang province after a typhoon but 26 people are still missing, state media said on Thursday.

The number of bodies recovered from a landslide that engulfed workers at a Chinese construction site rose to 31 today with seven people still missing, authorities said.

Around 40 people were missing in China today after a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company under one million cubic metres of earth, local authorities and state media said.

Hope of finding survivors was diminishing on Tuesday as rescuers used heavy machinery including bulldozers to search for at least 107 people trapped under a landslide in rain-hit southwestern China.Villagers huddled in tents set up at the site as rescuers searched for their family members.But there appeared to be little hope for survival, with no w...

The incident happened at about 2:30 pm (local time) yesterday in a village in southwest China's Sichuan province, leaving 5 people missing. Local authorities sent rescuers and the rescue operation ended with the recovery of last missing person's body

Rescuers have pulled 15 people alive from a landslide that slammed into a village in China's eastern Zhejiang province after a typhoon but 26 people are still missing, state media said on Thursday.

The number of bodies recovered from a landslide that engulfed workers at a Chinese construction site rose to 31 today with seven people still missing, authorities said.

Around 40 people were missing in China today after a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company under one million cubic metres of earth, local authorities and state media said.

Hope of finding survivors was diminishing on Tuesday as rescuers used heavy machinery including bulldozers to search for at least 107 people trapped under a landslide in rain-hit southwestern China.Villagers huddled in tents set up at the site as rescuers searched for their family members.But there appeared to be little hope for survival, with no w...