Six people were found alive and injured were reported from Saturday’s landslide, officials in Hubei province said in a post on the province’s WeChat account on Sunday, adding they were trying to prevent other disasters in the area as operations continued, Reuters reported.
China’s Ministry of emergency management activated a level-four emergency response and sent a working group to the site to guide emergency handling.
Torrential rains in parts of China over several weeks have led to a number of deadly landslides. Last month in Sichuan province, 19 people were killed in a landslide at a mine, and four died when heavy rainfall in a short period caused landslides.
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