BEIJING: According to the local authorities, a disaster in the Sichuan province in southwest China on Sunday( Jun 4) resulted in 14 fatalities and five missing persons.
According to the local authorities in an virtual speech, the” crash took place high on a rock” at 6am in Jinkouhe, near the city of Leshan.
The remains of 14 patients have been found as of 3.30 p.m., but five people are still missing, according to the report.
According to the statement, authorities sent more than 180 people as well as a few pieces of recovery and recovery tools to work the area.
It stated that” search and rescue operations are already desperately underway.”
About 240 kilometers north of the provincial capital Chengdu, the location is in a hilly area.
In remote and mountainous areas of China, landslides are a common threat, especially in the gloomy summer.
An official in Jinkouhe’s attention division was contacted by AFP but declined to comment further on the disaster on Sunday.
The economy of this town, which has about 40 000 residents, is mostly based on forestry, electricity generation, agriculture, and other sectors. It is situated between lush mountains and a large river.
Many of Sichuan is especially vulnerable to disasters because it is remote and heavily forested.
In 2017, the state experienced a string of landslides brought on by severe weather, one of which fully engulfed the hill village of St. Xinmo and buried more than 60 homes.
Large rains once more in 2019 resulted in a flurry of floods, including one that buried an area of railway that was being repaired and people working on it.
Additionally geologically engaged, the province occasionally experiences fatal earthquakes.
More than 87, 000 people— including 5, 335 schoolchildren — were killed or missing as a result of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck in 2008.
Accidents also happen often, despite China having strengthened safety protocols in its industrial industries in recent years.
A side collapsed at a plant in the north Inner Mongolia territory in February, leaving more than 50 people” missing or dead.”
A silver mine in the northwest Xinjiang region collapsed in December, and about 40 people were working underground at the time.