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BEIJING: Pelting rain in southwest China triggered a
mudslide that buried 27 workers alive, the latest in a series of
downpours that have claimed hundreds of lives this rainy season,
state press reported Friday.
The deaths occurred in Yunnan
province, where 74 workers living in tents near a dam were swept
away by the mudslide early Thursday, Xinhua news agency said.
A disaster team was searching for
two missing laborers, the report said, adding that an unspecified
number were injured.
Flooding and landslides had
killed 360 people this year through July 2, when the rainy season
officially began, according to the flood headquarters.
Nearly that amount have been
killed since during several weeks of intense rain and flooding
across the country, according to officials and media reports.
--AFP
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