Rainstorm kills 11 in northwest China
( 2003-08-25 16:03) (Xinhua)
Eleven people were reportedly killed and six others injured when a sudden
rainstorm struck Baoji City of northwest China's Shaanxi Province Sunday
afternoon.
The rainstorm suddenly hit Baoji city proper at around 5 p.m. Sunday, causing
a mud-slide near Bei'an Village in Jintai District.
The mud-slide destroyed a two-story building, burying 13 migrant workers who
lived there.
Two workers died on the spot, five others died in a local hospital and the
remaining six were still being treated in hospital.
The rainstorm also flattened a wall of a workshop of the No. 1 Transportation
Company of Baoji City. Two workers escaped and four others died after being
buried under the debris of the collapsed wall.
Baoji city government officials immediately rushed to the accident site to
direct rescue efforts and more than 500 soldiers, public security officers and
armed police were sent to search for the trapped workers.
Sunday afternoon's rainstorm also hit Huxian and Zhouzhi counties of Shaanxi
Province, flattening some residential houses and damaging some farmland. But no
casualties were reported.
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