Over 60 missing after landslide in Shaanxi
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Rescuers search at the site of a landslide in Shanyang County of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Aug. 12, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua] |
More than 60 people are missing after a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company in China under more than 1.3 million cubic meters of earth.
The landslide covered 15 employee dormitories and three houses in Shanyang County in the northwestern province of Shaanxi early yesterday morning.
Rescuers managed to dig out four people who have been admitted to hospital where they are in a stable condition.
Ten people at the Wuzhou Mining Co managed to escape by themselves.
Zhou Kunlin, one of the 10, said: "I was woken up by people shouting about the danger."
He and several colleagues ran out of the dorm and up the mountain. They were lucky to escape with just minor injuries from falling stones.
"Those who ran down the mountain were buried by the landslide," he said. "Many just had no time, as the landslide buried the area in mere minutes."
More than 700 police, firefighters, mining rescuers and paramedics are at the scene. Residents living nearby have been evacuated.
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