FEARS grew for 141 people missing in China after a landslide buried their mountain village in southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, with reports that only three survivors had been pulled out of the mud and rock hours after the calamity struck. The paper also said a family of three, including a month-old baby, managed to escape just as the landslide had started to hit their house.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday ordered all-out rescue efforts for those buried by a landslide in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Rescuers search for survivors following a landslide in Sucun village in eastern China's Zhejiang Province in September.
The landslide fell around 6 a.m. local time, Xinhua says, and also blocked a section of a nearby river and buried about a mile of a road.
Rescuers had been able to safely relocate about 320 people living close to the site of the disaster and people living in four villages around Xinmo.
China's national weather observatory said more heavy rain was expected in parts of Sichuan and other southwestern provinces.
The landslide unleashed huge rocks and mounds of earth on the village.
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The Maoxian county government said 1,959 people, including soldiers, police and medical workers, were involved in rescue operations, with 31 pieces of equipment including bulldozers and diggers.
Almost 2,000 police, soldiers and civilians were taking part in the rescue.
"There are several tonnes of rock", local police captain Chen Tiebo told the state broadcaster CCTV.
"It's the biggest landslide to hit this area since the Wenchuan quake", Wang Yongbo, an official leading one of the rescue efforts, told state broadcaster China Central Television.
Photos posted on the site showed piles of rubble and large rocks while emergency responders helped a woman by the road.
China has been experiencing weeks of heavy summer rains that often cause flooding and trigger landslides.
Floods due to rains during the past few days in the Hunan and Hubei provinceshave affected about 390,000 people.
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