Over 100 people are still missing as of Sunday, June 25, a day after a landslide buried the mountainous Xinmo village in China’s Sichuan province.
At least 24 dead, 109 missing as a desperate search continues after the landslide in China's Sichuan Province. https://t.co/u5Znkt7ZVo pic.twitter.com/JqqKqzw9b2
— CNN (@CNN) June 25, 2017
Hopes fade in China as more landslide victims found with over 100 missing https://t.co/v2dBnOPU8j pic.twitter.com/xczOXK8CWT
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 25, 2017
Despite the efforts of over 2,500 rescuers that used detection devices and rescue dogs, they have recovered 10 bodies and remain searching for signs of life amid the rubble, according to the Sichuan provincial government. Earlier reports from state media said that 15 bodies were found.
As of Sunday afternoon local time, three people including a one-month-old baby were rescued from the site.
The tourist destination has become known for its picturesque scenery of homes in lush meadows tucked between steep and rugged mountains.
The landslide carried an estimated 18 million cubic meters of earth and rock from the steep mountains above from as one mile high above the village.
Aba prefecture executive deputy governor Xu Zhiwen said that 142 tourists were in the village at the time of the landslide and survived.
In 2008, a magnitude-7.9 earthquake killed around 90,000 people in Wenchuan County which is approximately 25 miles from Saturday’s landslide.
UPDATE: Over 100 people buried after landslide smashes 40 homes in SW China's Sichuan; 2km of river blocked https://t.co/96SJbHBfT0 pic.twitter.com/W2maRL9yxc
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) June 24, 2017
Rescue is underway as 141 are missing in a landslide in Maoxian County of SW China's Sichuan pic.twitter.com/v0BOqen86Y
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) June 24, 2017
