Three confirmed dead, seven missing after NW China rock-mud flow

Rescuers have recovered bodies of three people who went missing after a rain-triggered rock-mud flow Thursday morning hit a village in northwest China's Gansu Province, said local authorities.

The accident occurred around 2 a.m. in Guanshan Village of Yugur Autonomous County of Sunan, burying 10 members of a family, said a spokesman with the county's publicity department of the Communist Party of China.

Rescuers were searching for the seven people still missing, but their survival chances were slim, said the spokesman.

Source:Xinhua