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Two killed in landslide in typhoon-ravaged E China
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Rescue staff walk on the site where a building is buried by a landslide at Pengxi Township in Taishun County, east China's Zhejiang Province, August 11, 2009. Two people died and four were injured in a storm-induced landslide late Monday here. The landslide occurred at around 10:21 p.m., after five straight days of continuous rain brought by Typhoon Morakot. [Wang Dingchang/Xinhua]
Rescue staff walk on the site where a building is buried by a landslide at Pengxi Township in Taishun County, east China's Zhejiang Province, August 11, 2009. Two people died and four were injured in a storm-induced landslide late Monday here. The landslide occurred at around 10:21 p.m., after five straight days of continuous rain brought by Typhoon Morakot. [Wang Dingchang/Xinhua]


(Xinhua News Agency August 12, 2009)

 

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