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At least 29 people have died and dozens still reported missing after a landslide hit southwest China earlier this week, according to reports.
“On Saturday night that 40 people have been rescued from the site in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, according to the local emergency rescue command”, Xinhua News said.
Two children and a mother with a baby were among those dead.
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A local school had been set up as an emergency medical and rescue centre with “multiple rescue teams and experts” still searching for those missing.
The government has earmarked 30 million yuan ($4.35 million) for search and rescue efforts in the province, Xinhua reported, as well as the relocation of victims.
Landslides are a frequent danger in rural and mountainous parts of China, particularly after heavy rain, and the country has suffered severe flooding this year.
In August 2017 at least 30 people were killed in two separate landslides in the same rural province of Guizhou.
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