Landslide

ZHOUQU, Gansu, – The death toll from a massive rain-triggered mudslide in Zhouqu County in northwest China’s Gansu Province has risen to 702, with 1,042 others still missing, local civil affairs authorities said Tuesday afternoon. Some 1,243 people have been rescued, Tian Baozhong, head of the provincial civil affairs department, told a news conference.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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