Landslides strand 5,000 on 4 trains

BEIJING - About 5,000 passengers on four trains were stranded on Thursday night as rain-triggered landslides buried parts of a railway line in Southwest China, local railway authorities said on Friday.

More than 2,000 people with 10 excavators rushed to clear the Chengdu-Kunming rail line, which links the provincial capitals of Sichuan and Yunnan, the Chengdu Railway Bureau said in a statement.

The bureau said it sent food and water to the trapped passengers and buses to evacuate them.