Death toll from landslide in southern China rises to 36, with 15 people still missing
- ‘Multiple rescue teams’ continue to search for survivors in rural Shuicheng county, Guizhou province
- Two children and a mother with a baby among latest victims found
The death toll from a landslide that buried a village in southern China has risen to 36, with 15 people still missing days after the disaster struck, state broadcaster CCTV said on Sunday.
The state-run People’s Daily said rescue work was ongoing at the site in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, where a thick torrent of mud buried 22 houses on Tuesday.
CCTV broadcast footage of rescuers trying to reach survivors through a huge mound of earth, and excavators digging through the collapsed hill.
Two children and a mother with a baby were among those killed.
State news agency Xinhua said on Saturday night that 40 people had been rescued, citing the local emergency rescue command.
It also said that a school had been set up as an emergency medical and rescue centre, and that “multiple rescue teams and experts” were still searching for those missing.