BEIJING (AP) - Rescuers are using bulldozers and other heavy machinery to search for survivors buried under a landslide that trapped at least 107 people in rain-hit southwestern China.
But Tian Maosheng, an official from Guizhou Communist Party Propaganda Department, who is helping with the rescue, says there appears to be little hope for survival, with no word on casualties or survivors by noon Tuesday.
More than 60 residents stranded by the landslide were evacuated Tuesday. Other villagers huddled in tents as rescuers searched for their family members.
Homes were buried when the landslide struck the village of Dazhai in Guizhou province Monday afternoon after days of torrential rains. An official interviewed by state broadcaster CCTV said nearly half a hill had collapsed, engulfing a wide area in soil.
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