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Elementary school students buried in a landslide were confirmed dead on Friday,
while one person still remained missing a day after a hillside collapsed and
smothered part of a village in mountainous southwestern China. The landslide
smothered the elementary school, three farmhouses and damaged six other homes
in the village.
The
landslide dammed a river, causing it to pool 15 meters across and forcing the
evacuation of 800 other people and prolonging the rescue of the missing peoples
bodies. Rescue teams had to remove the blockage.
A cause of
the event isn’t proven yet, but it’s assumed to have had some correlation with
recent rainstorms and a series of small quakes last month that loosened part of
the mountain.
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