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| Graphic map locating Zhongxing in China's Sichuan province where 30 - 40 people have been buried by a landslide Wednesday, according to state media. |
Much of China has been hit by heavy rainfall in recent days.
Mountainous regions in the country's southwest are prone to landslides and earthquakes.
A landslide east of the Tibetan capital Lhasa buried 83 mine workers in April when it crushed their camp.
In January 46 people -- many of them children -- were killed in a landslide in Yunnan province, where more than 1,000 rescuers worked in freezing temperatures overnight in search of survivors.
