BEIJING: Around 40 people were missing in China Wednesday after a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company under one million cubic metres of earth, local authorities and state media said.
The deluge shortly after midnight swallowed 15 employee dormitories and three residential houses in Shanyang county, in the northern province of Shaanxi, an official at the county’s propaganda office told AFP.
Around 40 people were missing, said the official, who declined to be named.
The state-run Xinhua news agency said four people had been rescued by mid-morning and rushed to hospital. Another 10 at the site had avoided being trapped when the landslide hit, it added.
Police, firefighters, mining rescuers and medical staff had been sent to the scene and residents in the area evacuated, the county government said in a statement.
