Team to look into landslide

LOUFAN, Hunan province: The State Council, China's Cabinet, is launching an investigation into a landslide that killed 44 people in the northern Shanxi province in August.

Human error was to blame for the landslide, which toppled the waste dump of a local iron mine and buried Sigou village of Loufan county in the suburbs of the provincial capital Taiyuan on Aug 1, State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) deputy director Wang Dexue said.

Wang is heading a 49-member team established yesterday to investigate the accident, as local authorities initially played down its severity.