Landslide probe team refutes bribe allegations
(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2013-01-16 17:32The team probing the cause of a landslide in Southwest China's Yunnan province has refuted accusations from local villages' that they are taking bribes from the government.
The landslide occurred in Zhenxiong county on Jan 11, killing 46 people.
Jiang Xingwu, head of the investigation team dispatched from the provincial government, said the landslide was a natural disaster caused by loose soil and continuous rainstorms, according to a Beijing News report on Wednesday.
However, some local villagers believed that the landslide was caused by explosion at the nearby coal mine, and 72 villagers signed their names to a petition calling for the cause of the disaster to be re-examined.
Some villagers accused the investigation team of accepting bribes from the county government, but Jiang denied the accusation, said the report.
Jiang said the investigation team has been to the landslide location twice and were reassured that the landslide was a natural disaster.
Contact the writer at anbaijie@chinadaily.com.cn
Related:
Villagers demand reinvestigation into landslide
Govt apologizes for cremating landslide victims
Clan almost wiped out in huge Yunnan landslide
Village to be moved after SW China landslide
Fatal landslide prompts disaster prevention
Earthquakes blamed for fatal SW China landslide
Landslide kills dozens; Xi orders all-out rescue
- 129 telefraud suspects sent to mainland
- Unified work permit for foreigners on way
- Zika unlikely to spread on mainland, officials say
- Exchange rates shaping travel plans
- Mental compensation stipulated in miscarriages of justice
- Center set up in Hainan to study fishermen's guidebooks
- Beijing setting up G20's first center to aid corruption fight
- Government to improve 'weak links'
- Scientists developing multipurpose stratospheric airships
- Action plan aims to reduce new disability cases over next 5 years
