Heavy rain triggers landslide in China, people trapped under debris

An official at the department said by phone that the cause of the landslide was still unclear.

Update: 2016-05-09 09:26 GMT

Rescuers on Sunday searched for 34 construction workers missing in a landslide at the site of a hydropower project following days of heavy rain in southern China.

The Taining county official, who only gave his surname of Wei, said firefighters and police were attempting to reach the buried, who were working on a hydropower project.

Heavy rain has affected much of southern China since Wednesday, triggering floods and landslides.

An official at the department said by phone that the cause of the landslide was still unclear, but that the area had seen rainfall in the past few days.

Rocks and mud with a volume of 100,000 cubic meters (3.5 million cubic feet) buried an office building and the workers' living area at the site in mountainous Taining county in Fujian province around 5 a.m. Sunday, according to a website run by the county's Communist Party's publicity department.

An official at the department said by phone that the cause of the landslide was still unclear.

Heavy rain triggers landslide in China, people trapped under debris

An official at the department said by phone that the cause of the landslide was still unclear.

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