Rescuers hunt for 28 people still missing after a landslide in southwest China; 1 body recovered

Emergency teams in China’s southwestern Sichuan province are battling against time to locate 28 people missing after a rain-triggered landslide that buried their homes. One body has been found. State broadcaster CCTV reported that nearly 1,000 personnel, including armed police, firefighters and medical professionals, continued to work in the rescue operation following the landslide in a village in Junlian county on Saturday. They rescued two injured people and evacuated about 360 other people after 10 houses and a manufacturing building were buried. At a news conference, authorities announced that preliminary assessments attributed the disaster to recent heavy rainfall and local geological conditions.