BEIJING: Around 40 people were missing in China Wednesday after a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company under a one million cubic meters of earth, local authorities said.

The deluge shortly after midnight swallowed 15 employee dormitories and three residential houses in Shangluo, in the northern province of Shaanxi, the city government said in a statement.

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