Landslide buries car with unknown number of people in E China
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Rescuers are digging through debris to reach people believed to be trapped in a car that was buried in a landslide in east China's Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, Tuesday.
The number of people in the car was unknown, said a rescue spokesman.
Two excavators are also working at the scene.
The landslide hit a sector of the Yinchang road, which links Lishui City and neighboring Jinyun County, at about 2:30 p.m., the spokesman said.
No casualties have yet been reported.
An estimated 2,000 cubic meters of debris covered 80 meters of road below, said the spokesman.
The biggest rocks weighed 2 to 3 tonnes and the debris was up to 5 meters deep.
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