Latest News:  

English>>China Society

Five missing in east China landslide

(Xinhua)

15:25, May 16, 2013

NANCHANG, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Five people were missing after a rain-triggered landslide in a tree farm in east China's Jiangxi Province Thursday morning, local authorities said.

The disaster in the Wanling tree farm in Da'a township of Xinfeng county also disrupted traffic and telecommunications, the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said in a statement.

The rescue operation is under way.

Most parts of Jiangxi have been battered by heavy rainstorms since Tuesday, while Da'a received a rainfall of 106.5 mm from 5 p.m. Wednesday to 5 a.m. Thursday, it said.

We Recommend:

Young tenants' dream in Beijing

Brazilian self-defense martial art gains popularity

Huge rubber duck visits Hong Kong

5 years after Wenchuan earthquake

Flight attendent recruitment in Wuhan

China embraces beginning of summer

Photo story: Little boy walking on his hands

Beijing welcomes longest subway line in the world

S China city becomes Venice after heavy rain

Email|Print|Comments(Editor:GaoYinan、Chen Lidan)

Leave your comment0 comments

  1. Name

  

Selections for you


  1. Jiangmen missile frigate in fire training

  2. Troops in night equipment support drill

  3. Traditional Carabao Festival kicks off

  4. Giant rubber duck deflates at HK harbor

  5. Yi people celebrate festival in Yunnan

  6. China’s weekly story (2013.5.3-5.11)

  7. Hot baseball cheerleading squads in China's Taiwan

  8. Highlights of Chinese table tennis team

  9. 2013 Qingdao Int'l Auto Show kicks off

  10. No Wonderland any more

Most Popular

Opinions

  1. Chinese dream grows with the world
  2. Culture key to sustainable development
  3. Huawei spy story is nothing but a joke
  4. Ten white papers, road to human rights protection
  5. Teen's tragedy reveals child abuse problems
  6. People with depression show disrupted brain 'clock'
  7. iPad obsession hurting child's development
  8. Positive signs in Europe hard won
  9. Who do psychiatrists turn to for therapy?

What’s happening in China

Three injured in plane's failed take-off in NE China | Pictures

  1. Man arrested for plane bomb hoax calls
  2. Shanghai battery factory canceled over protest
  3. Telephone threats ground five planes
  4. Sex education sessions target migrant teens
  5. China vows to help college grads land jobs