More than 140 villagers were feared buried Saturday in a massive landslide triggered by heavy rain in Sichuan Province in southwestern China, according to local officials and the Chinese media.
China Daily reports that five people have been found dead and more than 140 are missing after
huge boulders and a mass of earth buried 62 homes in the village of Xinmo in Mao County.
The Sichuan Daily said rescuers made contact with a villager buried under the rubble who answered her cellphone when they called and burst into tears. The woman was in the bedroom of her home when the landslide hit the village, and rescuers were trying to reach her, the report said.The paper said a family of three, including a month-old baby, managed to escape just as the landslide hit their house around 6 a.m.Rescuers work at the site of a massive landslide where over 120 villagers are estimated buried in the early morning disaster in Maoxian county, in southwest China's Sichuan province, on June 24, 2017Qiao Dashuai told state broadcaster CCTV that the baby saved the family because he was woken up by the child’s crying and was going to change the baby’s diaper when he heard a noise that alerted him to the landslide.We heard a strange noise at the back of our house, and it was rather loud,” Qiao said. “Wind was coming into the room so I wanted to close the door. When we came out, water flow swept us away instantly.” He said they struggled against the flood of water until they met medical workers who took them to a hospital. Qiao said his parents and other relatives had not been found.
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