Heavy rain caused a landslide in south-western China Friday that killed at least ten and left 12 others missing, local officials said. The landslide hit early morning and buried 29 people in the village of Pianpo, in the province of Guizhou, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the county government.
Seventeen had been pulled from the rubble as of early Friday evening - ten of whom were pronounced dead at the scene, it said. Rescue efforts were continuing with some 800 soldiers and relief workers on-site, according a statement from the province's civil affairs department on its official social media account. Pictures posted online showed a deluge of mud had toppled trees and crushed cement buildings, leaving bricks and cinderblocks scattered in heaps of rubble. Rescue workers with hard hats and shovels dug at steep slopes of debris.