Buried by landslide

MORE than 120 people have been buried by a landslide that caused huge rocks and a mass of earth to crash into their homes in a mountain village in south-western China early yesterday, officials said.

The landslide, which came from a mountain, engulfed a cluster of 62 homes and a hotel in the village of Xinmo in Mao County at about 6am local time, the Sichuan provincial government said.

“It’s the biggest landslide to hit this area since the Wenchuan earthquake,” Wang Yongbo, an official leading one of the rescue efforts, told state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).