BEIJING: More than 80 workers were buried when a huge landslide came crashing down a mountainside in Tibet on Friday, Chinese state-run media said.
A vast three-kilometre-long section of land, with a volume of two million cubic metres, slid down a slope and buried 83 miners in Maizhokunggar county, east of the Tibetan capital Lhasa, the official Xinhua news agency said.
A total of 1,000 police, firefighters and doctors were sent to the disaster site, at an altitude of 4,600 metres, the agency said, with 200 vehicles and 15 dogs, and sets of life-detecting equipment.
State broadcaster CCTV quoted a member of the Chinese People's Armed Police on the scene as saying that "the situation looks serious, the collapsed area is three or four square kilometres".
Rescuers have so-far found no signs of the trapped workers, the policeman added.
<Center><b><i>Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2013</b></i></center>
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