The death toll from a landslide that struck in China’s rugged southwest rose to 43 on Thursday, state media said, leaving just one victim still missing under the debris. The landslide, which occurred in Yunnan province’s Zhenxiong county before dawn on Monday, buried 18 homes and sparked the evacuation of more than 200 people.

 

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