More than 700 people are now known to have died in a massive landslide in north-west China – making it one of the deadliest incidents so far in the country’s worst flooding in a decade.
Rescuers digging by hand through mud found a 52-year old man who had been trapped for more than 50 hours inside a leveled apartment building in the remote town of Zhouqu, where local officials said more than 1,000 other people were still missing. Rescuers with sniffer dogs discovered the man, Liu Ma Shindan, who was in weak condition but breathing normally.
