Death toll from NW China mudslide rises to 702; 1,042 still missing
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| Zhang Wucheng (3rd R) and Lu Chaoju (2nd L), three children of whom were killed in the landslide, cry painfully when their child's body were put into a coffin in the mudslide-hit Zhouqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Gansu Province. The death toll from a massive rain-triggered mudslide in Zhouqu County has risen to 702, with 1,042 others still missing, local civil affairs authorities told a news conference Tuesday afternoon. (Xinhua/Nie Jianjiang) |
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