Sixty-five?people in southwest China's Guizhou
Province are still missing after a landslide early on
Friday.
Twenty-five houses were destroyed, in which an
estimated 108 people were sleeping when the tragedy took place at
around 03:00 AM in the village of Zuojiaying, Nayong County.
Thirty-one people fled the scene and 12 others were
rescued later, leaving 65 still missing.
Leading county officials have sent rescue workers
to the village. Yang Guoshun, from the State Production Safety
Bureau, was in Guizhou on unrelated matters and also rushed to the
scene.
Other rescuers included police and soldiers
stationed in Guizhou, headed by Provincial Vice Governor Wang
Zhengfu.
(Xinhua News Agency December 3, 2004)