An excavator works at the site of the landslide in Lin'an City of east China's Zhejiang Province, August 14, 2009. Five people are dead and four are missing after rainstorms triggered a landslide in Zhejiang Province early Friday, the local government said in a press release. The landslide buried a three-storey house, trapping at least 11 people shortly after midnight in the mountainous Lin'an City. (Xinhua/Huang Shengang)
Rescuers have found a further two bodies in the rubble of a rainstorm-triggered landslide in east China's Zhejiang Province, bringing the death toll to seven, the local government said Friday.
Two more people are missing after the landslide buried a three-story house in Lin'an City near the provincial capital Hangzhou shortly after midnight.
At 2 p.m., rescuers were still searching through the rubble with life detectors.
Two survivors were pulled out early in the morning and taken to a local hospital. A city government spokesman said they were out of danger.
A six-member team of experts is investigating the accident.
Lin'an city, with a population of 510,000, suffered heavy rains Thursday afternoon with 88 mm falling from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The rain also caused a highway to cave in Tonglu County in the suburbs of Hangzhou. Two village officials are missing after their car fell into swollen waters where the road collapsed.
The officials, Chen Zhuping and Zhong Weiliang, were inspecting flood control work in the region. The car was retrieved at 2 p.m. but the officials remain missing.
Source: Xinhua
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