A landslide which buried a section of a road in southwest China's Yunnan Province has claimed three lives and eight people missing.
A landslide which buried a section of a road in southwest China's Yunnan Province has claimed three lives and eight people missing.
In the landslide site, which is about 32 km away from the county seat, there are more than 200 rescuers, along with 11 excavators and four sniffer dogs that seek for the missing people in the debris.
Sources: startribune.com, oneindia.com
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