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    Mudslide Takes Possibly 107 Lives in Dazhai, China

    Posted by barb On June - 29 - 2010
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    People being helped out of area of landslide
    People being helped out of area of landslide
    It has been raining for days. China continues to suffer from flooding in areas that has taken lives and forced many from their homes. Over 3 million people have been forced out of thier homes in China in the past 2 weeks.

    At this time in other areas of China that have been hard hit by rains and landslides, the number of people that have died is at least 239 with 109 people still that haven’t been located. This does not include the 107 from Mondays landslide in Dazhai.

    As the mud washed down the hillside, it entrapped many homes in the mud trapping people inside. As they are trying to find the missing people, more mud could come down the hillside at any time.

    The homes that are buried beneath the mud are in Dazhai which is in the Guizhou province of China.

    The number of people who have died in the landslide is not yet know. It is reported that close to half of the hillside had caved in absorbing a large area of mud.

    There are rescuers dressed in orange colored clothing searching along the hillside. Looking under concrete slabs or anything eles that someone could be trapped under.

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