On a Friday morning in Pengshui, a town nestled along the Wujiang River in China's Chongqing province, the earth itself became the danger — a massive landslide sending boulders and debris cascading over homes and roads in a matter of moments. Seven people have been pulled alive from the wreckage, a fragile mercy amid a disaster whose full human cost remains unwritten. In a region where steep terrain and geological instability are old companions, this event reminds us how swiftly the ground beneath ordinary life can shift. Rescue teams press on, holding the space between hope and grief as the s
Landslide in southwestern China buries people, destroys buildings
Multiple people trapped under rubble; seven rescued alive with unknown number of deaths and missing persons.