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China Landslide: 120 Feared Buried in Mountain Village in Sichuanby The Associated PressBEIJING — At least 120 people were buried by a landslide that caused huge rocks and a mass of earth to come crashing into their homes in a mountain village in southwestern China early Saturday, officials said.The landslide, which came from a mountain, engulfed a cluster of 62 homes and a hotel in the village of Xinmo in Mao County at about 6 a.m. local time (6 p.m. Friday ET), the Sichuan provincial government said. Officials said one mile of road was buried in the disaster."It's the biggest landslide to hit this area since the Wenchuan earthquake," Wang Yongbo, an official leading one of the rescue efforts, told state broadcaster China Central Television. Wang was referring to China's deadliest earthquake this century, a magnitude 7.9 temblor that struck Sichuan province in May 2008, killing nearly 90,000 people. Continued: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/around-100-people-feared-buried-southwest-china-landslide-n776271
