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)
Eleven bodies were recovered and two injured people were rescued from the rubble of a rainstorm-triggered landslide in east China's Zhejiang province, the local government said Friday afternoon.

Rescue work was completed at around 3:00 p.m. Friday in Lin'an city which is administered by Hangzhou, the provincial capital, according to the local government.

The landslide occurred at around 11:30 p.m. Thursday in Qingliangfeng town after two hours of downpour with a precipitation of 88 mm. It buried a three-storey residential building with 13 people inside.

The two injured, with one of them seriously wounded, have been hospitalized.

A team of six experts is investigating the accident.

Source: Xinhua