Chinese rescue workers searched for dozens of people believed to be trapped by a massive landslide in the southwest city of Chongqing on Saturday, a state-run news agency reported.
Rescuers said about 80 people were buried in debris from the landslide and have almost no chance of survival, Xinhua reported. But rescuers hope to save 27 miners trapped under a mine in the area, the agency reported.
PORT MORESEBY – Three bodies have been recovered and 16 people are missing, feared dead, after a massive landslide wiped out a remote Papua New Guinea village.
Villagers had to walk three hours to alert authorities in Morobe Province, on PNG’s northwest coast, after days of continual heavy rains caused the landslide early on Monday.
Authorities and local media reported on Wednesday at least five Firangka village houses were wiped out in the Sialum District when the face of an overlooking mountain slid for more than 500m, carving up 200m at its widest.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The death toll from a landslide in northern Guatemala has risen to 37 after villagers discovered two more bodies.
Rescue crew chief Sergio Cabanas said Wednesday that Aquil Grande residents found the bodies after spotting buzzards flying overhead.
The discovery came after rescuers called off their search Tuesday, citing the danger of falling rock from the weakened mountain.
HANOI, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Flash floods and landslides have killed 50 people in Vietnam and Thailand, swept away thousands of homes and inundated farmland, official reports said on Sunday.
In Vietnam, the death toll from typhoon Hagupit, which struck the Philippines and China earlier in the week, has jumped to 32 with another five people missing.
Thousands of homes were either washed away or destroyed by heavy rains and landslides in northern Vietnam, the government’s storm and flood prevention committee said.
BEIJING, China (CNN) — The death toll from a mud and rock slide that occured at an unlicensed mine last week in northern China has risen to 254 as rescue workers continue to recover more bodies, state-run media said Sunday.
More than 1,000 rescue workers have combed through 90 percent of the inundated area — digging through hundreds of thousands of tons of slush, mud and rocks around a mine in Xiangfen county, the China Daily newspaper said.
The county is located in the country’s Shanxi Province.
BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers shoveled and hammered at debris Wednesday searching for survivors buried under sludge, mud and mining waste in northern China after a landslide that killed at least 128 people, but hopes of finding anybody alive were fading.
The landslide that plowed into buildings Monday in a valley in Shanxi province’s Xiangfen county also injured 35 others and trapped an unknown number of people under the rubble, local officials said.
A low-rise office building, a market and some houses were knocked down by the rapid surge of mud and mining waste, which formed a wall measuring three stories high and 660 yards (600 meters) wide, according to media reports.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says that heavy rains led to flash floods that killed at least 19 people and injured four others in southwestern Iran.
According to the TV report, the flooding hit the southwestern Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province on Tuesday night. The waters wrecked more than 50 homes and 740 acres, or 300 hectares, of farmland.
The TV says at least 1,030 cattle perished. The floods also destroyed five fish-breeding facilities.
Thirty-four people have been killed after a mud and rock slide caused a warehouse in north China to collapse, China’s state-run news agency reported Tuesday.
Torrential rain caused the slide at about 8 a.m. Monday near the warehouse in China’s Shanxi Province, the Xinhua new agency reported, quoting rescue workers.
Witnesses said the flow of rocks and mud roared down a valley, the agency said.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) _ Two landslides triggered by heavy rains buried more than 20 houses in a remote gold-mining village in the southern Philippines, leaving at least 11 people dead and 19 others missing, officials said Monday.
Small stone houses and huts at the foot of the mountain village of Masara were destroyed Saturday by falling mud and rocks, killing six villagers and injuring 17 others. Another landslide struck the village early Sunday, killing five more people.
The landslides, which cascaded down a mountainside with frightening booms, buried about 28 houses and forced up to 5,000 people in Masara and nearby villages to run for their lives, said Mayor Voltaire Rimando.
BEIJING (AP) _ The Xinhua News Agency says at least 26 people are dead after a landslide in northern China.
The agency said the flow of mud and rocks in Shanxi province was triggered by rain and caused the collapse of a mine warehouse.
Xinhua cited the provincial work safety bureau as saying that one person was injured and several others were trapped, although a specific figure was not immediately available. It was not know how many of the victims were inside the warehouse at the time of the landslide Monday.
