8 dead, 24 missing in rainstorms
Xinhua, September 2, 2014 Adjust font size:
Eight people have died and 24 others are missing by early Tuesday after rainstorms brought landslides to southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, said the local rescue headquarters.
![A photo taken on September 1, 2014 shows the scene of a landslide in Yunyang County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. [Photo: Chinanews.com]](http://images.chinagate.cn/attachement/jpg/site1021/20140902/c03fd54abac0156f787616.jpg "A photo taken on September 1, 2014 shows the scene of a landslide in Yunyang County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. [Photo: Chinanews.com]") |
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A photo taken on September 1, 2014 shows the scene of a landslide in Yunyang County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. [Photo: Chinanews.com] |
More than 500 professional rescuers, including fire-fighters and armed police, have evacuated over 7,000 residents in nine rain-drenched townships in Yunyang County to safe locations, said the headquarters.
The missing include 11 coal miners in Yunyang who were buried by a landslide on Monday morning.
Torrential rain started to pound northeastern parts of Chongqing on Sunday, causing direct economic losses of 68 million yuan (11 million U.S. dollars) in Yunyang.
