As per state media reports, nearly 100 people from 40 homes were feared buried in a massive landslide in Maoxian County in China’s Sichuan Province. Rescue operations are on to search for those missing.
According to a statement from the Maoxian government news office, the side of a mountain collapsed, which led to debris falling on the 40 homes in Xinmo village. Even though an emergency response ‘to the first class catastrophic geological disaster’ has been put into operation, the total extent of the landslide remains unclear.
A Xinhua news report said a ‘part of a mountain’ in the Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba had collapsed. During heavy rains, landslides in mountainous parts of China are common, and the lives of thousands of people are risked in the same.
12 people were killed in early January this year when a landslide hit into a hotel in central Hubei province.
More details are awaited.
