Category Archive: Landslide

Death toll from China landslide reaches 254

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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. …

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China landslide kills 128

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. …

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Flash floods kill 19 in Iran

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 …

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Landslide kills 34 in Shanxi, China

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 …

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Landslides hit remote southern Philippine village, leaving at least 30 dead or missing

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 …

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