18 killed in China landslides
(Agencies)
Updated: 2006-07-09 09:17 Eighteen workers were killed
in two separate landslides in China this week, Xinhua News
Agency said.
Eleven were migrant workers who were killed when a landslide buried the tent
they were sleeping in at an iron mine in northern Shanxi province, Xinhua
reported. Only one person survived.
All the victims were men aged from 25 to 45.
Seven workers at an oilfield in northwest Gansu province were also killed
Thursday by a mudslide caused by heavy rain, the Lanzhou Morning Post said.
Fifteen other workers were injured and two were missing.
Rescuers in central China's Hunan province meanwhile found the remains of 25
farmers killed in a flash flood on June 25, Xinhua said. Two others remained
missing.
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