China, 4 Jun (AP): Fourteen people were killed and five are missing following a landslide in southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Sunday, the local government said.
\nThe “collapse took place high on a mountain” at 6 am (2200 GMT Saturday) at a state-owned forestry station in Jinkouhe, near the city of Leshan, the local government said in an online statement.<\/p>\n
“As of 3:30 pm, the remains of 14 victims have been recovered, while five people remain missing,” it said.<\/p>\n
Authorities sent more than 180 people and a dozen pieces of rescue and recovery equipment to the site, according to the statement.<\/p>\n
“Currently, search and rescue work is urgently underway,” it said.<\/p>\n
The site is in a mountainous region about 240 kilometres (150 miles) south of the provincial capital Chengdu.<\/p>\n
Landslides are a frequent danger in rural and mountainous parts of China, particularly during the rainy summer months.<\/p>\n
Contacted by AFP, an official in Jinkouhe’s publicity department declined to give further comment on Sunday’s landslide.<\/p>\n
The settlement of around 40,000 people lies between verdant mountains and a wide river and its economy largely runs on forestry, power generation, agriculture and other industries.<\/p>\n
Remote and densely forested, much of Sichuan is particularly prone to disasters.<\/p>\n
Extreme weather triggered a series of landslides in the province in 2017, including one that completely buried the mountain village of Xinmo, entombing more than 60 homes.<\/p>\n
In 2019, massive rains again caused a slew of landslides, including one that buried a section of railway under repair and those working on it.<\/p>\n
The province is also seismically active and periodically experiences deadly earthquakes.<\/p>\n
A 7.9-magnitude quake in 2008 left more than 87,000 people dead or missing, including 5,335 school pupils.<\/p>\n
Although China has strengthened safety protocols in its extractive industries in recent years, accidents still frequently occur.<\/p>\n
More than 50 people were declared “missing or dead” after a slope collapsed at a mine in the northern Inner Mongolia region in February.<\/p>\n
And around 40 people were working underground when a gold mine in the northwestern Xinjiang region collapsed in December.<\/p>\n
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