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18 dead in E. China rainstorm-triggered wall collapse

Xinhua, May 11, 2014

• Eighteen people were killed and another three injured early Sunday morning after a rainstorm-triggered wall collapse in Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province, said local authorities.

  At 5:48 a.m. Sunday, an earth-retaining wall collapsed and fell onto a makeshift house for staff at a processing site of a Shandong renewable resource company at Huangdao Island, said the press office with the Qingdao city government.

  The wall collapsed due to waterlogging after a rainstorm.

  Rescuers soon rushed to the site and conducted a search.

  As of Sunday noon, rescue work had finished. Three injured people have been sent to receive medical treatment.

  Investigation into the incident is under way.

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