Landslide in China Is Feared to Have Buried Over 140 People
A landslide in the province in 2013 buried about 40 people; another in 2014 killed at least 11 people.
One local police commander, Chen Tiebo, said there might have been as many as 200 people in the village, China Central Television said.
The Communist Party secretary of Sichuan, Wang Dongming,
and other officials were rushing to the village, in a sign of the gravity of the disaster, Sichuan Daily said.
By CHRIS BUCKLEYJUNE 23, 2017
BEIJING — More than 140 people in southwestern China are feared to have been buried under an avalanche of mud
and rocks when a hillside collapsed on Saturday, Chinese news media reported.
"In the entire village I could only see one home," Mr. Li told the Sichuan Daily.
The area was badly hit by an earthquake in 2008 that killed tens of thousands of people in Sichuan and nearby provinces.
