China landslide death toll rises to 11 as search continues for 50 missing
- Death toll from Chongqing landslide increases to 11.
- Rescue teams continue searching for 50 missing people despite finding no signs of life.
- Difficult terrain and unstable slopes are hampering rescue operations.
- Disaster comes less than two weeks after a deadly landslide in Gansu province.
The death toll from a devastating landslide in southwestern China has risen to 11, while rescue teams continue searching for 50 people who remain missing beneath massive piles of debris, authorities said on Friday.
The landslide struck Pengshui County in Chongqing last Friday, sending huge volumes of rock and earth crashing down a mountainside and burying several residential buildings and riverside properties.
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Hundreds of emergency responders remain at the disaster site, where state media footage showed entire sections of a residential and commercial area engulfed by rocks and mud.
However, local authorities said repeated search operations using specialised life-detection equipment have found no signs of survivors.
“Following multiple rounds of life detection and search operations, no signs of life have been detected,” Pengshui authorities said in an official statement.
Officials said rescue efforts have been severely complicated by the enormous volume of debris, the large number of massive boulders, limited working space and unstable slopes, making access to the affected area extremely dangerous.
Despite the difficult conditions, specialist rescue teams are continuing round-the-clock operations to recover victims in what authorities described as a scientific and orderly search effort.
Ten people were also injured in the disaster, according to the latest official update.
The revised figures mark a sharp increase from earlier reports, which had confirmed eight deaths and 34 people missing.
The tragedy comes less than two weeks after another deadly landslide struck Gansu province in northwestern China, where 21 people were killed after dozens were buried under collapsing earth and debris.
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