Landslide in China kills 18 children

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Oct 05, 2012, 06:30 AM
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. Read the BBC story hereAFP - 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

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