About 200 people relocated after fatal landslide in SW China’s Sichuan
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Approximately 200 people have been evacuated to safety after a landslide buried 10 houses and left over 30 people missing in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Saturday.
The landslide occurred at 11:50 a.m. in Jinping Village, which is located in Junlian County of the city of Yibin, according to local authorities.
A Level I geological disaster emergency response, the highest level, was initiated in the province at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Emergency rescue, fire, public security, transportation, medical, telecommunications, electricity and other forces quickly rushed to the scene to carry out or assist the rescue efforts.
Two people were rescued in the afternoon.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
