Survivors unlikely as landslide kills 128

Rescuers hammered at debris today searching for survivors buried under sludge in northern China after a landslide that has killed at least 128 people, but hopes of finding anybody alive were fading.

The landslide that ploughed into buildings on Monday in a valley in Shanxi province’s Xiangfen county also injured 35 others and trapped an unknown number of people under the rubble, local officials said.