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Vanessa Cai

At least 30 people were missing after a landslide in southwestern China on Saturday, according to state media.
The landslide occurred in the village of Jinping in Sichuan province at around 11.50am, burying at least 10 houses, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The village is part of the city of Yibin.
Emergency workers pulled two people trapped in the debris to safety, Junlian county’s emergency management bureau said in the afternoon.
The bureau also said local authorities had established an emergency rescue command centre.
The cause of the landslide was not immediately clear but light rain had fallen from Friday night to Saturday morning, according to local media reports.

Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered “every effort to search for the missing and to minimise casualties”.
He also called for monitoring and early warning systems to be stepped up as well as efforts to prevent secondary disasters.
The Ministry of Emergency Management sent rescue teams to the site.
The finance and emergency management ministries also jointly allocated 30 million yuan (US$4 million) in central government funding for natural disaster relief for the affected area.
In addition, the Ministry of Natural Resources said it had sent a team of specialists to help guide rescue efforts.
Premier Li Qiang ordered an investigation into the cause of the landslide, and an assessment of potential geological risks in the surrounding areas.
State broadcaster CCTV reported that about 200 people had been evacuated from the village.
A village official told The Beijing News that in recent months, many residents had reported seeing rocks rolling down the mountain.
The village had reported the issue to higher authorities and measures were taken, including installation of protective nets, the report said.
A villager was quoted as saying the landslide lasted for about 10 minutes, with “large rocks continuing to slide down one after another”.
Sichuan is one of the regions in China that are particularly prone to natural disasters, including floods and mudslides.
Another is Yunnan province in southwest China.
In January last year, a massive mountain landslide in a village in Yunnan killed 44 people. Dozens of villagers were trapped when their homes were engulfed by the landslide in the early morning in freezing conditions and heavy snow.
In July, a severe landslide in a village in central China’s Hunan province killed 15 and injured six. The landslide occurred following several days of heavy rainfall.


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Two people have been pulled from the debris in the village of Jinping in Sichuan province


Two people have been pulled from the debris in the village of Jinping in Sichuan province.
