15 killed, 100 missing in China landslide

More than 50 other people were injured in the landslide Wednesday morning in Guangxi province's Nandan county, the Beijing Morning Post reported. The embankment of sand and mine waste collapsed suddenly, releasing a 2-meter-high (6-foot-high) wave of waste water, mud and stones that destroyed or buried more than 100 houses and knocked over a company's dormitory, the newspaper said. It did not say what caused the embankment to collapse.

By Thursday morning, rescue workers had dug out the bodies of 15 dead, most of them migrant workers, the newspaper. The report cited witnesses as saying more than 100 other people were missing. More than 50 others who were rescued were being treated in hospitals, it said.

(AP)