text

Shenzhen police takes compulsory measures against 12 responsible for landslide

Shenzhen police have taken compulsory measures against 12 people, including company executives, responsible for a landslide on Dec. 20 that left dozens missing in the city.

text

Rescue team mourn victims of Shenzhen landslide

Saturday is the seventh day since the landslide, and the mourning ritual was held in line with the Chinese tradition.

text

Only one survivor as rescue continues three days after Shenzhen landslide

A man was rescued early Wednesday morning, more than 60 hours after being buried by a landslide at an industrial park in the southern city of Shenzhen.

text

First death confirmed as 80 remain missing in south China's landslide

Nearly 3,000 rescue workers were racing against time on Monday to search for dozens of people missing after Sunday's landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.

text

Reinforcements arrive for Shenzhen rescue operation

​Seventy-eight excavators and 1,200 rescuers have been added to the operation searching for the 91 people missing after Sunday's landslide in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

text

6 killed in Indonesia's North Sumatra landslide

​Six people have been killed and five others injured in a landslide that occurred in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, a senior official at Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said on Tuesday.

text

Death toll in Sri Lanka's massive landslide rises to eight

​Death toll in Sri Lanka's massive landslide tragedy rose to eight on Monday after two more bodies, including that of a child was recovered, an official said.

text

Sri Lanka president visits landslide-affected area while nearly 200 still missing

​Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday visited landslide-affected residents in a central area where rescuers are working hard to search for nearly 200 people who are still estimated to be missing.

text

Sri Lankan president orders relief as 300 remain missing in landslide

​Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed the government to fully support rescue efforts as around 300 people are feared dead from a landslide in central Sri Lanka, an official said here on Wednesday.

text

China highway landslides trap people, vehicles

A series of landslides has buried six vehicles and trapped an unknown number of people on highways in southern China as of Monday, said local authorities.

text

Fatal N China landslide confirmed as geological hazard

A landslide that left eight people dead on Monday in north China's Shanxi Province has been confirmed as a geological disaster, local government authorities said Wednesday.

text

Rainstorms trouble China

Continuous rainstorms are wreaking havocs in China.

text

Over 30 buried in SW China landslide

Over 30 people were buried in a rainstorm-triggered landslide that occurred in southwest China's Sichuan Province Wednesday, local authorities said.

text

Rescue work suspended after 36 bodies found at Tibet landslide site

Rescue work at the site of a landslide that buried 83 miners in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region was suspended on Monday for fear of further slides. By Monday afternoon, rescuers had retrieved 36 bodies from the site of the massive landslide, which happened on Friday.

text

Landslide victims’ families request reinvestigation

On Friday a devastating landslide engulfed a small county in the mountains of southwest China's Yunnan Province, claiming more than 40 lives...Now, families who lost their beloved ones are questioning whether the disaster was natural - or man-triggered.

text

Gov’t apologizes for cremating bodies

Dozens of families of the victims voiced anger on Sunday, after realizing authorities' had already cremated all the bodies without their consent in the landslide disaster of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Now the government has said sorry.

text

Landslide victims’ families protest cremation

A landslide engulfed a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province last Friday, killing 46 people. By Sunday, government authorities had cremated all the bodies, triggering anger from victims' families.