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Photo taken on July 27, 2010 shows the scene after a landslide took place in Hanyuan County, southwest China' Sichuan Province. Twenty-one people were missing after a rain-triggered landslide hit villages in Hanyuan County Tuesday morning, local officials said. (Xinhua/Tang Liang)
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HANYUAN, Sichuan, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-one villagers are missing after a landslide flattened a village in southwest China's Sichuan Province Tuesday morning, the latest in a series of rain-triggered disasters across the country.
About 100,000 cubic meters of rock and mud slid down Ermanshan Mountain near Shuanghe Village, Hanyuan County, Ya'an City, at around 5 a.m. Tuesday, smashing into three scores of brick houses at the foot of the mountain, local officials said.
Armed police combing the rubble saved three survivors -- including a 80-year-old -- and helped thousands of villagers re-locate.
Xinhua reporters saw the ruins of a row of three-story brick houses and part of a normally forest-covered slope of Ermanshan mountain covered by a layer of mud and rocks poised to slide further down.
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