Rescuers search for 28 people still missing after landslide in south-west China
Chinese vice premier Liu Guozhong was at the site to guide the rescue operation.
Emergency teams in the Sichuan province of south-western China are racing against time to locate 28 people after a landslide triggered by rain killed one person and buried homes.
Nearly 1,000 personnel were deployed following the landslide in the village of Jinping in the county of Junlian on Saturday.
Some officers navigated through the remains of collapsed buildings, using drones and life-detection radars to locate any signs of life with the help of local officials who were familiar with the area, state broadcaster CCTV said.
Two injured people were rescued and about 360 others evacuated after 10 houses and a manufacturing building were buried, CCTV reported.
At a news conference on Sunday, authorities said preliminary assessments attributed the disaster to recent heavy rainfall and local geological conditions.
They said these factors transformed a landslide into a debris flow more than half a mile in length.
Chinese vice premier Liu Guozhong was at the site to guide the rescue operation and visited the affected residents.
He urged authorities to make every effort to search for the missing people, according to official news agency Xinhua.
