Landslide wipes out Chinese village

A landslide swept over a village in north-west China covering dozens of homes and leaving at least 17 dead and 11 missing, reports said today.

The official Xinhua News Agency said rescuers in Shaanxi province were scrambling to find survivors after a massive wall of earth peeled away from a mountainside on Wednesday, crushing at least 25 houses in Shuanghuyu.