Heavy rain triggers landslide in China, people trapped under debris
9 May 2016 2:56 PM IST9 May 2016 2:56 PM IST
An official at the department said by phone that the cause of the landslide was still unclear.
Rescuers on Sunday searched for 34 construction workers missing in a landslide at the site of a hydropower project following days of heavy rain in southern China.- The Taining county official, who only gave his surname of Wei, said firefighters and police were attempting to reach the buried, who were working on a hydropower project.
- Heavy rain has affected much of southern China since Wednesday, triggering floods and landslides.
- An official at the department said by phone that the cause of the landslide was still unclear, but that the area had seen rainfall in the past few days.
- Rocks and mud with a volume of 100,000 cubic meters (3.5 million cubic feet) buried an office building and the workers' living area at the site in mountainous Taining county in Fujian province around 5 a.m. Sunday, according to a website run by the county's Communist Party's publicity department.
Rescuers on Sunday searched for 34 construction workers missing in a landslide at the site of a hydropower project following days of heavy rain in southern China.
An official at the department said by phone that the cause of the landslide was still unclear.
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