Thursday, 4 October 2012

Landslide in China buries 18 school pupils

BEIJING: Eighteen primary school pupils were buried Thursday when a landslide struck their school in a southwestern Chinese region that was hit by deadly earthquakes last month, state media said.

China’s official Xinhua news agency said a classroom building and two farmhouses were buried in the landslide in the village of Zhenhe in mountainous Yunnan province. Besides the children, a villager was also buried.

The students would not normally have been in school this week as China is on a

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