Rescuers used their bare hands to search for people buried beneath tons of mud after a landslide on the Indonesian island of Java wiped out rice paddies, killing at least five people.

A rain-triggered landslide has hit a village in south-west China, killing 23 people and leaving two missing, authorities said.

Chinese crews have recovered nine bodies and are still searching for 109 others about 30 hours after a massive landslide buried a picturesque mountain village in the south-western province of Sichuan.

More than 140 people are feared to have been buried by a landslide that unleashed huge rocks and a mass of earth which crashed into their homes in south-western China early on Saturday, officials said.

Rescue teams using heavy equipment have recovered two more bodies from a landslide that swept into a village on Indonesia's main island, bringing the number of retrieved bodies to four.

Rescuers are searching for more than two dozen people who are missing after a landslide struck a village on Indonesia's main island of Java.

It was not clear what caused Saturday night's collapse, although residents have said the dumping of rubbish had resumed there in recent months.

At least two people have been killed and 10 others are missing after a hotel in central China was buried in a landslide.

Investigations have been launched after a man was killed while working on a wind farm.

Heavy rain has pounded the central Sri Lankan region where at least three villages have been swallowed up by mountains of mud, forcing soldiers and police to suspend rescue efforts.

A massive landslide, triggered by torrential rains, has buried homes in three villages in the central hills of Sri Lanka.

Rescuers using infrared cameras to peer into darkness at a wrecked mine in eastern China have found eight surviving miners trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered as a seismic event.

Waste mudslide covers buildings in China’s latest industrial disaster

Rescuers have pulled a man out alive after he was buried for more than 60 hours in a massive landslide in southern China

Officials highlighted their handling of the search for 76 missing people at a collapsed mountain of construction waste as questions mounted yesterday about why leaders in southern China’s most prominent manufacturing city didn’t act months earlier to prevent the disaster.

Rescuers were searching for at least 91 missing people a day after a mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sunday.

Rescuers are searching for at least 91 people who are missing a day after a mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings in southern China.