Across China: Hunan

Dam burst takes 3 lives

Three people were confirmed dead and four others injured when a tailings dam burst and set off a landslide on Thursday morning that destroyed a home in central China's Hunan province, the local safety administration said.

The reservoir of manganese ore waste burst at 12:45 am and toppled the house in Huayuan county of Xiangxi autonomous prefecture, a spokesman with the provincial work safety administration confirmed. He said the reservoir, with a capacity of 50,000 cu m, belonged to a local mining company.