Landslide buries 19, including school students, in China

Landslide buries 19, including school students, in China

PanARMENIAN.Net - A landslide buried 19 people in a village in southwestern China, including 18 students in a primary school, CNN reported citing Chinese state media.

A rescue effort was under way in the village of Zhenhe in Yunnan Province after the landslide hit the school and two nearby houses on Thursday, Oct 4 morning, according to official news agency Xinhua and the state-run website Chinanews.com.

Local authorities have relocated people in the village to safer locations, the Xinhua said.

Zhenhe is in Yiliang County, which was hit early last month by a series of earthquakes that killed at least 80 people and injured hundreds.

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