China
China landslide: More than 700 people confirmed dead
10 Aug 2010
More than 700 people are now known to have died in a massive landslide in north-west China - making it one of the deadliest incidents so far in the country's worst flooding in a decade.
A frantic search is continuing for the more than 1,000 people still missing. Buildings were hit by a wall of mud so mighty that buildings seven storeys high crumpled like paper.
The weather forecast for the coming days is for heavy rain, which could hamper humanitarian work, and there is also the possibility of further landslides