Emergency personnel and local people work at the site of a landslide in Xinmo village in Maoxian in southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday. (Chinatopix via AP)BEIJING: At least 120 people are missing and feared buried alive by a landslide that unleashed huge rocks and a mass of earth that crashed into their homes in southwestern China early Saturday. Provincial officials initially said that 141 people were missing but later revised the figure down to 120. Rescuers pulled out three people, two of whom had survived, the official Sichuan Daily newspaper said on its microblog. The village is known locally for tourism and Chinese reports said it was unclear if tourists were among the people buried by the landslide.

Source: Bangkok Post June 24, 2017 04:06 UTC