<\/p>\n\n\n<\/noscript><\/p>\nRescuers gather at the site of a landslide in Liupanshui in China\u2019s southwestern Guizhou province on July 24, 2019. \u2013 Eleven people have died and 42 are missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in southwest China\u2019s Guizhou province, the government said on July 24. (Photo by STR \/ AFP) \/ China OUT<\/p>\n<\/div>\nEleven people have died and 42 are missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in China\u2019s southwestern Guizhou province, the government said Wednesday.<\/p>\nRescuers have freed 11 survivors after a mudslide buried 21 houses in a village in Shuicheng county Tuesday night, the Ministry of Emergency Management said in a statement on the Twitter-like Weibo platform.<\/p>\nVideo of the landslide aired by state broadcaster CGTN showed the side of a collapsed hill covered in thick mud and excavators digging through the debris.<\/p>\nRescue workers in helmets with torches were seen struggling through the thick mud as ambulances waited nearby.<\/p>\nAbout 560 rescuers were still combing through the rubble searching for survivors, the statement said.<\/p>\nChinese president Xi Jinping has called for a \u201ccareful investigation\u201d into flood and disaster management to reduce further damage, the ministry said.<\/p>\nLandslides are a frequent danger in rural and mountainous parts of China, particularly after heavy rain, and the country has suffered heavy flooding in 2019 so far.<\/p>\nA separate landslip at a construction site in a village in Hezhang County in Guizhou on Tuesday killed one person and six others are missing, the county government said.<\/p>\nAbout 2.2 million people in Guizhou have been affected by floods and heavy winds in the first half of the year, and natural disasters have shaved off 3.1 billion yuan ($450 million) off the local economy this year, China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n
\n<\/noscript><\/p>\nRescuers gather at the site of a landslide in Liupanshui in China\u2019s southwestern Guizhou province on July 24, 2019. \u2013 Eleven people have died and 42 are missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in southwest China\u2019s Guizhou province, the government said on July 24. (Photo by STR \/ AFP) \/ China OUT<\/p>\n<\/div>\nEleven people have died and 42 are missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in China\u2019s southwestern Guizhou province, the government said Wednesday.<\/p>\nRescuers have freed 11 survivors after a mudslide buried 21 houses in a village in Shuicheng county Tuesday night, the Ministry of Emergency Management said in a statement on the Twitter-like Weibo platform.<\/p>\nVideo of the landslide aired by state broadcaster CGTN showed the side of a collapsed hill covered in thick mud and excavators digging through the debris.<\/p>\nRescue workers in helmets with torches were seen struggling through the thick mud as ambulances waited nearby.<\/p>\nAbout 560 rescuers were still combing through the rubble searching for survivors, the statement said.<\/p>\nChinese president Xi Jinping has called for a \u201ccareful investigation\u201d into flood and disaster management to reduce further damage, the ministry said.<\/p>\nLandslides are a frequent danger in rural and mountainous parts of China, particularly after heavy rain, and the country has suffered heavy flooding in 2019 so far.<\/p>\nA separate landslip at a construction site in a village in Hezhang County in Guizhou on Tuesday killed one person and six others are missing, the county government said.<\/p>\nAbout 2.2 million people in Guizhou have been affected by floods and heavy winds in the first half of the year, and natural disasters have shaved off 3.1 billion yuan ($450 million) off the local economy this year, China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n
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