Landslide in Yunnan Province, China: 25 Dead, 19 Missing (Comprehensive)

The death toll from a massive landslide in Yunnan Province, southwestern China, has risen to 25.

Landslide rescue site in Yunnan Province
[Photo by China CCTV broadcast screen capture].

According to China's state-run news agency Xinhua on the 23rd, Chinese authorities have deployed over 1,000 rescue workers and more than 150 pieces of equipment to Liangshui Village, Tangfang Town, Zhenxiong County, Yunnan Province, where the landslide occurred the previous day, to continue searching for missing persons.

As of 4 p.m. that day, the confirmed death toll was 25. The number of missing persons is 19.

Authorities initially believed that 47 people from 18 households were buried by the landslide, but it was later reported that three residents who were out at the time of the accident and had been unreachable made contact with the rescue team that afternoon.

Based on the first assessment by an expert team, the authorities diagnosed the disaster as a collapse that occurred at the top of a steep cliff. The collapsed area measures approximately 100 meters in width, 60 meters in height, and an average thickness of about 6 meters, totaling around 50,000 cubic meters.

The debris fell onto the mid-slope of the mountain where residents lived, causing a strong impact and scraping soil from the surface of the steep slope as it slid downward. By the time it reached the foot of the mountain, the volume of the collapsed material had increased to about 70,000 cubic meters.

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