30 road workers caught in landslide
A landslide in south-western China buried 30 road workers, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today, but there was no immediate word on whether any died.
In a brief report, Xinhua said the landslide occurred at about 2am on Sunday (6pm Saturday) outside the village of Baotou in Guizhou province. It gave no details about the condition of the buried workers.
Guizhou’s Communist Party secretary, governor and other officials rushed to the area to lead rescue efforts, Xinhua said.
Guizhou, one of China’s poorest and least developed provinces, is one of the targets of a central government-funded project to build roads, power stations and other infrastructure in China’s west.
