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Six confirmed dead in south China landslide
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2008-11-25 15:30

 

All the six missing people had been confirmed dead as of Monday night and six more were treated in hospital after a landslide in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Sunday.

The landslide occurred at around 11:37 am in Fengshan County of Hechi, when about 21,000 cubic meters of rock and soil buried 16 buildings.

At least two tractors, a car and a motorbike were buried in the rubble as the landslide buried more than 300 meters of a pivotal highway in the county.