Deadly mudslide buries village

A village in China was buried after heavy rains triggered deadly landslides, news reports said today.

Sat, 26 May, 2007 - 09:01

A village in China was buried after heavy rains triggered deadly landslides, news reports said today.

A mudslide last night swept through the village of Heba in Garze, an ethnic Tibetan region of Sichuan province, killing 12 people and injuring 18 others, the Xinhua News Agency said.

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Courts Heathrow Place: China Place: Heba Place: Garze Place: Sichuan province Place: Shimian Place: Ya’an Organisation: Xinhua News Agency

<p>The U.S. military said it killed four men in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in international waters in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday (December 4). “Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed,” the U.S. military said in a statement on X. U.S. Southern Command released a 21-second-long video showing the boat being struck. The video appeared to show the boat being hit and erupting in flames in international waters. Screengrab od video supplied by Reuters.</p>

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