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11 missing, 11 injured in SW China landslide
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-07-27 00:41
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KUNMING - Eleven people went missing and another 11 were injured after a landslide triggered by rain Monday morning in southwest China's Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, a spokesman with the prefecture government said.
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 Rescuers search for survivors at a landslide site in southwest China's Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province July 26. [Photo/Xinhua] |
The landslide happened at 00:30 a.m. on Monday in Gongshan Drung-Nu Autonomous County, according to the spokesman.
The missing people are nine male construction workers with a local hydro power plant and a mother and her 4-year-old daughter. Four of the missing people were citizens of Myanmar, according to a statement from the prefecture government.
Rescue work was disrupted Monday night by falling rocks and would be resumed Tuesday morning, said Deng Shineng, a policeman and rescuer at the site.
