1 July 2014
Zhaotong City: a new landslide video
Posted by Dave Petley
Zhaotong City landslide
The onset of the rainy season is China is, as usual, being marked by an increase in landslides. A number of news agencies have been carrying this footage of a slide occurring at Tuohe village in Daguan County, Zhaotong City in Yunnan Province on Saturday afternoon:
The landslide buried four local people, three of whom died. The heavy rains have also led to the death of a panda in Sichuan Province, apparently having been caught in a landslide, and to a landslide in Yunnan Province yesterday that killed two people and left a further 13 people missing.