BEIJING, Aug 4, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - A landslide that hit a village insouthwestern China and caused a highway bridge to collapse killed at leasteight people and left 19 missing, state media said Sunday. A flash flood and mudslide caused the collapse of a highway bridge thatlinked two tunnels, with four cars carrying 11 people plummeting off it,state broadcaster CCTV said on Sunday. In the village of Ridi, near the collapsed bridge, six other people werekilled and 11 were missing, according to CCTV. Last month, the collapse of a highway bridge in northern Shaanxi provincekilled 38 people and left 24 missing, state media said on Friday. Heavy rains in central China this week have also killed at least 30 peopleand left 35 missing, according to a provisional toll published on Thursday.
