2024-01-22 05:47:59
A landslide buried at least 47 people in Yunnan province, in southwest China, on Monday January 22, according to a preliminary estimate, state media said.
The tragedy took place at 5:51 a.m. (local time) in Liangshui village, located in Zhenxiong county, and “47 people from eighteen households were buried”indicated the New China news agency.
“More than 200 residents were urgently evacuated, ten excavators, thirty-three fire trucks and more than 200 rescuers were mobilized for search operations”said public television CCTV.
A region prone to landslides
A video published by New China shows around ten firefighters in orange suits and helmets advancing on what appears to be concrete blocks and other debris.
Images published on the Chinese social network Douyin show a mountain village covered in snow and with houses partly buried by what appears to be a landslide.
The scene of the tragedy is located about 1,600 kilometers southwest of Shanghai as the crow flies and some 350 kilometers northeast of the provincial capital, Kunming. Landslides occur regularly in mountainous southwest China, especially after rainfall.
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