HANGZHOU, Jan. 20 -- Four people have been pulled out of a landslide in east China's Zhejiang Province Monday, while a rescue operation is still under way to check if more are buried.

The disaster took place at 4:27 p.m. near a road construction site in the mountainous Kaihua county in the city of Quzhou, the county government said in a statement.

The four people have been rushed to hospital, it said, giving no further details on them.