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Fourteen Bodies Found After Mudslide in China’s Sichuan
Workers salvage a morotcycle after a mudslide hit in Ningnan in Southwestern China's Sichuan Province on July 1, 2012. (STR/AFP/GettyImages)
Heavy downpours caused a mudslide to hit in Southwestern Sichuan Province late last month, officials said Monday. Rescuers recovered 14 bodies, but approximately 26 people remain missing.
The accident took place at the Baihetan Hydropower Station construction site, where workers and their family members lived in a three-story building.
In Ningnan County, rescue workers pulled 12 bodies out of the Jinsha River and two bodies were discovered nearby at the construction site, which is owned by China Three Gorges Corporation, state-run Xinhua reported.
Ningnan is primarily a mountainous county around 400 miles from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, and is said to experience a great amount of mudslides during the rainy season.
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