At least 70 laborers lost their lives in landslides last year, including more than 50 at an open pit mine in the Inner Mongolia region. In 2021, a tunnel that was being built flooded, killing 14 workers
A landslide in the hilly Yunnan province of southwest China early on Monday resulted in the deaths of 47 people and forced the evacuation of 200 more amid freezing temperatures and falling snow.
The catastrophe occurred in the northwest Yunnan province village of Liangshui shortly before six in the morning. According to the Zhenxiong County PR Department, search and rescue operations were in progress to locate fatalities interred in eighteen different residences.
Reports of fatalities or injuries did not surface right away. Although images showed snow on the ground and falling, the reason of the landslide was not immediately identified.
After surviving the avalanche while Luo Dongmei, 35, was asleep, the local authorities moved her to a school.
My brother knocked on the door and woke me up while I was asleep. They hurried upstairs and woke us up because they said there was a landslide and the bed was trembling, Luo said.
In addition to many other people, Luo, her husband, and their three children have received meals at the school, but they are still in need of blankets and other forms of protection from the cold, she stated.
Luo claimed that despite living closer to the landslide site, she has been unable to get in touch with her sister and aunt. "I have no choice but to wait," she said.
In a remote skiing resort in northwest China, hundreds of avalanches caused by heavy snow stranded over 1,000 people for a week. Last week, rescuers evacuated the visitors. In a town near China's borders with Mongolia, Russia, and Kazakhstan in the Xinjiang area, the avalanches shut down routes, leaving both locals and visitors stranded.
In China, landslides—which are frequently brought on by rain or dangerous construction—occur frequently. Last year, landslides claimed the lives of at least 70 workers, including over 50 at an open pit mine in the Inner Mongolia region. 14 laborers lost their lives in 2021 when a tunnel that was being built flooded.
The Yunnan landslide also occurred a little more than a month after the strongest earthquake to ever strike China occurred in the northwest, in a remote area between the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. The Dec. 18 earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.2, destroyed homes, caused severe mudslides that flooded two villages in Qinghai province, and claimed at least 149 lives.
China experienced its deadliest earthquake in nine years, leaving over 14,000 homes demolished and almost 1,000 people injured.
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