Eight people were confirmed dead and one injured in a landslide
on Thursday in Wuning County, east China's Jiangxi Province.
Wuning county government officials said the landslide occurred
at around 10:20 AM when a huge block of mud broke off a hill, fell
on a highway construction site and destroyed a work shed inside
which nine workers were on a break.
The workers were buried and emergency workers rushed to dig them
out. Seven of them died at the scene and one died on the way to
hospital. The other one is out of danger but still receiving
medical treatment in hospital.
According to local work safety officials, the cause of the
accident was a combination of the explosions used in construction
and continuous rainfall.
(Xinhua News Agency January 19, 2007)