53 missing after landslide

AT least 53 people are missing after a landslide hit a county in Sichuan province in China’s south-west.

The official Xinhua News Agency said yesterday the landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Kangding county.

It did not immediately give any other details.

Heavy rains and floods have hit several areas of China in the last month, with 15 hikers killed two weeks ago when they were trapped in a canyon near Chongqing, also in south-western China.