11 Migrant Workers Killed in Landslide
From Times Wire Reports
A landslide at a construction site in central China buried migrant workers sleeping in a tent, killing 11 of them.
Only one worker survived the landslide, the New China News Agency said.
The workers were building a pumping station for the Jianshan iron mine, 70 miles outside Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province. An elevated stretch of land near the construction site collapsed, causing the landslide, the report said. It provided no other details.
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