The death toll from a landslide in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/chinas-parliament-approves-five-year-economic-plan-defence-budget-and-ethnic-law-23620592" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">northwestern China </a>rose to 21, state media reported Wednesday, following the conclusion of rescue operations at the scene.
The landslide, shortly before 7 am Tuesday, buried 33 people in the Nanhe township of Longnan city in Gansu province, the official<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/china-reveals-details-of-4-points-to-peace-in-middle-east-by-president-xi-jinping-23625701" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> Xinhua News Agency reported.</a>
State broadcaster CCTV reported all the people trapped were pulled out by early Wednesday, with seven of them having minor injuries. Five others were not injured, it said.
The cause of the landslide was not immediately clear. Photos and video posted online by CCTV on Tuesday showed three excavators and rescuers on mounds of earth. The sky appeared sunny and clear.
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China landslide death toll rose to 21 after rescue operations concluded in Gansu province, where 33 people were buried by the collapse

China landslide: Death toll climbs to 21 in Gansu after rescue operation concludes

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The death toll from a landslide in China's Gansu province rose to 21 after rescue teams pulled all trapped people from the debris.

China landslide death toll rises to 21 after rescue operations end in Gansu

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