Twenty-seven people were killed in a mud-rock flow in southwest
China's Yunnan Province on Thursday.
The disaster took place at about 6:00 AM in a field near the
Xiaojiangping Dam, in Sujiahekou Hydropower Station, in Tengchong
county, western Yunnan. Mud-rock flows triggered by continuous
rains swept through battered three tents, where 74 workers
lived.
Forty workers escaped, among whom five were slightly injured,
while the other 34 were buried.
Five of the buried have been saved, while rescuers recovered
27bodies and are still looking for the other two missing
workers.
The conditions of the five rescued workers is still unknown.
Luo Zhengfu, vice governor of Yunnan, has rushed to the site
with a disaster relief team.
(Xinhua News Agency July 20, 2007)
