More than 20 buried in quarry landslide in south China

GUILIN, Guangxi. May 9. KAZINFORM More than 20 quarry workers were buried after a rainstorm-triggered landslide hit their makeshift dormitory in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday, local authorities said.

The landslide occurred at 1:30 p.m. in the village of Luojiang, located near the tourist city of Guilin, which was drenched by a rainstorm over the weekend, said a spokesman from the municipal government's flood control and drought prevention office, Kazinform cites Xinhua.

Rescuers are working to find the buried workers while county officials make their way to the quarry, which is about 3 hours away from Guilin.

Guilin was hit with heavy rain Saturday evening, with rainfall exceeding 100 mm at 25 monitoring stations around the city by Sunday afternoon. The nearby village of Zhongfeng was partially flooded, with 70 residents evacuated from their homes.

The heavy rain also created problems for tourists when 130 travelers were briefly stranded at a countryside resort because of flooded roads in Guilin on Monday.

Reporters at the scene of the landslide said that the rain has stopped, but that the dirt roads leading to Luojiang remain muddy.

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