International Desk: 14 people died in a landslide in China. Also, five others are missing. The local government said the accident happened in the mountainous Jinkaohe area of the country’s southern Sichuan province early Saturday morning.
An online statement on Sunday said that a landslide had occurred on a hill. An emergency rescue operation is going on, and more than 180 rescue personnel have participated in the rescue operation.
Earlier, in 2017, several landslides occurred in Sichuan province due to heavy monsoon rains. As a result, a mountain village named Shinmo was completely destroyed. More than 60 houses in the village were buried under the ground.
Later in 2019, heavy rains caused several landslides. A large part of the railway was damaged.
China’s Sichuan province is also prone to earthquakes. In 2008, an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 killed more than 87,000 people.
