{"id":51578,"date":"2024-01-23T21:44:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T21:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/race-to-find-dozens-trapped-in-southwest-china-landslide\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T21:44:19","slug":"race-to-find-dozens-trapped-in-southwest-china-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/race-to-find-dozens-trapped-in-southwest-china-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Race to find dozens trapped in southwest China landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rescuers raced on Tuesday to find dozens of people still trapped after a landslide<\/a> struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China, killing 12.<\/p>\n

The pre-dawn landslide buried 18 homes and sparked the evacuation of more than 200 people when it struck in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan province early on Monday.<\/p>\n

More than 24 hours since the disaster, state news agency Xinhua<\/em> said rescue workers are now in a \u201crace against time\u201d to find those still missing, after a night of sub-zero temperatures.<\/p>\n

\u201cSearch and rescue efforts persisted through the night,\u201d firefighter Li Shenglong told Xinhua<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Twelve people have been confirmed dead, state broadcaster CCTV<\/em> reported just after midday.<\/p>\n

Wu Junyao, director of the natural resources and planning bureau of Zhaotong, told Xinhua<\/em> that the disaster \u201cresulted from a collapse in the steep cliff area atop the slope\u201d.<\/p>\n

Two hundred rescue workers have been dispatched to the scene as well as dozens of fire engines and other equipment.<\/p>\n

The site is covered in thick snow and rescuers are \u201cusing all kinds of tools to search for survivors\u201d, Xinhua<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n

Wu told Xinhua<\/em> the rescuers are digging through collapsed debris of \u201c100 meters in width, 60 metres in height, with an average thickness of around 6 meters\u201d.<\/p>\n

CCTV<\/em> showed footage of rescue workers digging through twisted metal and concrete overnight in a bid to find survivors.<\/p>\n

Other CCTV<\/em> footage showed locals huddling for warmth around a fire in a shelter, eating instant noodles.<\/p>\n

People from the surrounding area have chipped into to help with relief efforts, state media said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur village is nearby,\u201d Hong Jie, 38, told Xinhua<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur main focus is on distributing supplies, cooking, and delivering food to those in need.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018All-out efforts\u2019<\/h2>\n

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered \u201call-out\u201d rescue efforts.<\/p>\n

Landslides are common in Yunnan, a far-flung and largely impoverished region of China where steep mountain ranges butt against the Himalayan plateau.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s disaster occurred in a rural area surrounded by towering peaks dusted with snow, state media footage showed.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate official explanation for what may have caused the landslide.<\/p>\n

Efforts to establish what happened are underway, Xinhua<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n

China has experienced a string of natural disasters in recent months, some following extreme weather events such as sudden, heavy downpours.<\/p>\n

Rainstorms last September in the southern region of Guangxi triggered a mountain landslide that killed at least seven people, according to media reports.<\/p>\n

In August, heavy rains<\/a> sparked a similar disaster near the northern city of Xi\u2019an, killing more than 20 people.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rescuers raced on Tuesday to find dozens of people still trapped after a landslide struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China, killing 12. The pre-dawn landslide buried 18 homes and sparked the evacuation of more than 200 people when it struck in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan province early on Monday. More than 24 hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/01\/231044556476a26.jpg?r=105452","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}