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http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/buried-alive-more-than-100-people-feared-dead-in-china-landslide/news-story/518115f06598e1e6e4f57bd4bc666f83<snip>
RESCUERS have pulled 15 bodies from a massive landslide in China as the search continues for more than 100 others still trapped.
Only three survivors - a couple and their one-month-old baby - have been found so far after 62 homes in Xinmo village vanished under a mass of mud and rocks in Sichuan province.
Qiao Dashuai, the babys father, said he had woken up after 5am to change his crying sons nappy when he heard a big noise coming from the back.
The house shook, he told state broadcaster CCTV from his hospital bed. Rocks were in the living room. My wife and I climbed over, took the baby, and got out.
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Saw the rescued baby on TV - lovely healthy infant
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That horrific landslide in China (Original Post)
malaise
Jun 2017
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Skittles
(153,169 posts)1. ...
Just damn.
China gets the most horrific natural disasters. An earthquake can kill 100,000+ people. Typhoons leave more than a million homeless. Same with floods.
That family is lucky to be alive.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)3. Crying baby saved their lives
FM123
(10,053 posts)4. They are calling it a first class catastrophic geologic disaster.
I feel so sad for what they went and are still going through, my heart breaks for them. Just because geography separates us and they are on the other side of the world, it doesn't mean they are not our brothers and sisters.
malaise
(269,045 posts)5. Sure looks like one
and yes we're all brothers and sisters