19 killed after rain-triggered landslide in NW China
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Xinhua, September 20, 2011
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Nineteen people have died and 13 remain missing as of Tuesday afternoon after a rain-triggered landslide buried manufacturing facilities in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Saturday, according to the local rescue headquarters.
Rescuers equipped with heavy machinery are searching for 13 missing employees from a ceramics plant in Baqiao, a suburban district in the province's capital of Xi'an, the headquarters said.
The landslide occurred around 2 p.m. Saturday, burying a brick factory and destroying part of the ceramics plant.
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