Rescuers in Southwest China Race Extreme Weather to Reach Residents Trapped by Landslide A devastating landslide in southwestern China has left residents trapped and missing, prompting a desperate rescue effort hampered by incoming thunderstorms.
The tragedy in Pengshui county is merely the latest chapter in the country's long history of geological disasters.
Local community officials had issued an emergency warning mere hours before the landslide struck, but it appears that this was too little, too late.