BEIJING More than 200 people were killed or missing after two huge landslides swept away gold mine workers on a mountain in south west China, Xinhua news agency said yesterday.
Sixty six people were confirmed dead and 162 were missing on Laojinshan mountain, in Yuanyang county of Yunnan province, the official agency said. The mountain is the site of the Daping gold mine The official agency said the slides happened four days apart on May 31st and June 3rd but that news of the disasters had only just been revealed.