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A picture made available on October 5, 2012 shows rescuers digging for the children buried by a landslide in Yiliang county in southwest China's Yunnan province on October 4.
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This picture taken on October 4, 2012 shows rescuers searching for victims after a landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried a school and three farmhouses in Yiliang, southwest China's Yunnan province. All 18 school children who were buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in remote and mountainous southwestern China have died, state media reported on October 5.
A landslide that hit a primary school in southwestern China on Thursday claimed the lives of 18 children, the BBC reported. The slide hit the Tiantou Primay school in Yunnan province at around 8 a.m. local time, a BBC report said. At least one adult was still unaccounted for. The area was hit by back-to-back earthquakes in September. Read the BBC story here
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This picture taken on October 4, 2012 shows rescuers searching for victims after a landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried a school and three farmhouses in Yiliang, southwest China's Yunnan province.
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What ever Higher power you might believe in I hope he's with those Families now.To lose a Family member is hard but children who have only begun to live. I can't even begin to imagine.
I'm with you on this
Looking at the photo it looks like quite the remote location, for a school....regardless it's a terrible tragedy.
We take so much for granted in our own nation, in our advanced modern construction methods, safety regulations including where our schools are locations. Seeing these photos, it's just unbelievable how quick disasters like this happen under the simplest conditions.When. Especially in areas like China's more remote areas, with the majority of victims being helpless children all too often.
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