| Situation Update No. 3 Ref.no.: LS-20100310-25263-CHN
Situation Update No. 3
On 2010-03-13 at 04:55:59 [UTC]
Event: Landslide
Location: China Province of Shaanxi Zizhou
Number of Deads: 23 person(s)
Number of Missing: 11 person(s)
Situation: Two people were miraculously rescued Friday morning after being buried for 54 hours after a landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Rescuers said they found the 20-year-old man Cao Lele and his younger sister Cao Yanyan, aged 17, at 6:57 a.m. Friday, after hearing the young man's cry for help from beneath a collapsed floor. Rescuers said the children huddled with their mother, who had already died, when they were found. The sister suffered a serious injury, but the brother was in much better conditions.. The death toll from the landslide that occurred at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in Shuanghuyu Village, Zizhou County, had reached 26 as the rescue work ended Friday morning. About 90,000 cubic meters of loess earth from a hill side crushed 25 houses, burying 44 people in the landslide. Six people escaped uninjured. |  |
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