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All 46 retrieved from southwest China mudslide

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The rescue operation at the site of a landslide in southwest China’s Yunnan Province has finished after all 46 bodies were retrieved. Efforts are shifting to the burial of the victims, cleanup, and reconstruction work. The landslide destroyed [...]

SW China mudslide leaves 10 dead, 14 missing

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China on Thursday announced a decision to expand the coverage of the country´s healthcare insurance system to include the treatment of critical illnesses, aiming to prevent patients from being reduced to poverty by necessary healthcare costs. The [...]

Hundreds trapped in rain-triggered mudslide and flood

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Hundreds of people have been stranded by the mudslide and flood triggered by torrential rains in two provinces in central and southwest China. In central China’s Hubei Province, heavy rains hit Gucheng county in the city of Xiangyang [...]

Death toll from Xinjiang mudslide rises to 18

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The death toll from a mudslide that buried an iron ore mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Tuesday morning has climbed to 16, local authorities said Wednesday. Rescue workers search for victims after a mudslide [...]

Fourteen Bodies Found After Mudslide in China’s Sichuan

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Workers salvage a morotcycle after a mudslide hit in Ningnan in Southwestern China’s Sichuan Province on July 1, 2012. (STR/AFP/GettyImages) Heavy downpours caused a mudslide to hit in Southwestern Sichuan Province late last month, officials [...]

16 confirmed dead, 24 missing in mudslide

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CHENGDU – Sixteen bodies have been recovered following a rain-triggered mudslide that occurred in southwest China’s Sichuan province on June 28, an official from the local rescue command center said Wednesday. As of 6 pm Tuesday, [...]

Death toll hits 14 after SW China mudslide

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Rescuers are searching for the missing after a rain-triggered mudslide hit southwest China’s Sichuan pPovince on June 28. Fourteen people were confirmed dead and 26 remained missing after a rain-triggered mudslide hit southwest [...]

14 confirmed dead, 26 missing after SW China mudslide

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Rescuers have retrieved 14 bodies from a rain-triggered mudslide in southwest China’s Sichuan province on June 28 while 26 others remain missing, sources with the rescue commanding center said Monday. As of 6 p.m. Sunday, rescuers have [...]

3 dead, 38 missing in Sichuan mudslide

324 days ago | 0 comment
At least three people had been confirmed dead and there were still 38 people missing after a rain-triggered mudslide hit a a construction zone Thursday morning in southwest China’s Sichuan province, June 28, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua] Photos

About 40 workers missing after mudslide

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Between 38 and 41 people were missing as of press time on Thursday in the aftermath of rain-triggered mudslides in Southwest China’s Sichuan province. From Wednesday night to early Thursday morning, downpours lashed Ningnan county in the [...]

40 missing in SW China mudslide

325 days ago | 0 comment
About 40 workers at a hydropower station went missing in a rain-triggered mudslide Thursday morning in southwest China’s Sichuan province, according to local authorities. The disaster occurred at 6:14 a.m. at the construction zone of [...]

Mudslide in SW China leaves 40 missing

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Thirty-four higher education institutions of Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland, 17 for each, signed a letter of intent on Thursday to further strengthen exchange and cooperation in exchange of visits, personnel training and scientific research. Brazil´s [...]

40 missing in mudslide in SW China

325 days ago | 0 comment
CHENGDU – About 40 workers at a power station went missing in a rain-triggered mudslide Thursday morning in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, according to local authorities. The disaster occurred at 6:14 am at the construction [...]