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Landslides in China

The number of casualties in southwest China has increased to 337 people, while 1148 people were still missing, state news agency, Xinhua. Landslides in Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, was triggered by extremely heavy rain that struck the region on Saturday.


Chunks landslides blocking a river, and river water and then overflow and sweep over the rock and mud down the slope of the hill and crashed into the settlement. Monday evening the death toll reached 137 people, and 1348 are still missing.

Landslides hit Gansu, when China was still trying to cope with the impact most severe floods in the last 10 years. The 1000 flood took casualties and causing millions of citizens living in exile in many parts of China. In Gansu, landslides, tore up the block of apartments, houses and streets and buried under a thick layer of mud.

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