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Two people were killed and five others were missing in a quarry rockslide that occurred Monday afternoon in Nanxi County of Sichuan Province, southwest China, officials said Tuesday.
Rescuers are searching for the five buried under the rock mass, and the five who were injured have been rushed to hospital.
The accident took place at around 4:30 PM Monday in the quarry, which provides several thousand tons of limestone to local cement plants per month.
The cause of the accident is being investigated.
(Xinhua News Agency September 7, 2005)
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