China landslide buries school in Yunnan province

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BBC - 10/4/12

Martin Patience describes the rescue operation

At least five children have died after a landslide buried a school building in south-west China, officials say.

Rescue teams searching for survivors from the class recovered the bodies from the collapsed building. Nineteen people, 18 of them children, were buried when the landslide hit the school and two other houses in remote Yunnan province, officials say

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