(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121004-chinalandslide-01.photoblog900.jpg)Afp / AFP - Getty ImagesThis picture taken on October 4, 2012 shows rescuers searching for victims after a landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried a school and three farmhouses in Yiliang, southwest China's Yunnan province. All 18 school children who were buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in remote and mountainous southwestern China have died, state media reported on October 5. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTOAFP/AFP/GettyImagesA landslide that hit a primary school in southwestern China on Thursday claimed the lives of 18 children, the BBC reported. The slide hit the Tiantou Primay school in Yunnan province at around 8 a.m. local time, a BBC report said. At least one adult was still unaccounted for. The area was hit by back-to-back earthquakes in September. (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/07/13728780-quakes-in-southwest-china-kill-dozens-damage-20000-homes?lite) Read the BBC story here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19839932)(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121004-chinaLandslide-02.photoblog900.jpg)AFP - Getty ImagesThis picture taken on October 4, 2012 shows rescuers searching for victims after a landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried a school and three farmhouses in Yiliang, southwest China's Yunnan province. All 18 school children who were buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in remote and mountainous southwestern China have died, state media reported on October 5. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTOSTR/AFP/GettyImagesFollow @NBCNewsPictures (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsPictures)
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