18 school children dead in landslide

All 18 school children who were buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in remote and mountainous southwestern China have died, according to state media. The landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried the school and 3 farmhouses in Yunnan province October 4 as children arrived to make up classes lost due to deadly earthquakes in the area last month that killed 81 people. Rescuers pulled the body of the last missing child from the landslide debris early October 5. The disaster in the village of Zhenhe is likely to raise questions over why the children had been brought back into the school, located in a deep mountain valley, when the rest of China was on a week-long national holiday.

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