Rescue efforts continue to search for at least 28 missing persons as a dozen houses are buried in the land slide.
According to Chinese state media, rescue workers in southern China are looking for missing persons after land sliding in a village, killing at least one person.
Heavy rain -affected land sliding took place on Saturday morning in Jingping village in the city of Yibin, Sichuan province of China.
According to State Broadcaster CCTV, he left 28 people without counting 10 houses.
President Xi Jinping “after ordering to minimize the killings and consequently to make every effort to properly handle, about 1,000, including armed police, firefighters and medical professionals on Sunday One thousand personnel continued rescue operations.
State Broadcaster CCTV said some officers visited through the remnants of collapsed buildings, using drones and life -detected radar to find any signs of life with the help of local officials. They were familiar with the area.
According to CCTV, they rescued two injured victims and evacuated about 360 others.
At a news conference on Sunday, officials said preliminary studies attributed the devastation to recent heavy rains and local geological conditions. He said these factors turned the land slide into debris flow, resulting in the accumulation of debris, length of 1.2 km (more than half a mile), the total quantity of 100,000 cubic meters. (3.5 million cubic feet).
“A preliminary study suggests that the devastation was due to the recent prolonged rainfall and the influence of geological factors,” CCTV said, citing local officials.
Deputy Prime Minister of Chinese Liu Gozong was at this place to guide the rescue operation and visited the affected people. According to the official news agency Sinhava, he called on the authorities to do everything possible to find the missing people.
Sinhava said, Liu also noted that there were risks to the elimination of the slopes, demanding a scientific diagnosis to ensure the safety of the operation and prevent any other destruction.
China has allocated 80 million yuan (about $ 11 million) to support destruction and recovery efforts.
Land sliding due to often rain or unsafe construction work in China is not unusual. Last year, land sliding killed dozens of people in a remote, mountainous part of China’s southwestern Greek province.
