In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, emergency personnel work at the site of a landslide in Xinmo village in Maoxian County in southwestern China's Sichuan Province, Saturday. (He Qinghai/Xinhua via AP)BEIJING: Around 100 people are feared buried by a landslide that unleashed huge rocks and a mass of earth that crashed into their homes in southwestern China early Saturday, a county government said. The landslide from a mountain engulfed the village of Xinmo at about 6 am, burying some 40 homes, the government of Mao County in Sichuan province said. Photos posted on the site showed an area buried by earth and massive rocks. 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