BEIJING - at least 100 tourists, including 38 Vietnamese citizens, were trapped in China's Northwest after a landslide cut a road in the midst of weeklong storms that have flooded rivers and triggered landslides, killing at least 86 people, State media said Saturday.
Tourists have caught Friday night in northwestern Gansu province after a landslide cut traffic, the official agency of China Xinhua News said. They were on their way to a nature reserve in Sichuan province, which has been the most affected by the storms, and the road repair work was underway in an effort to free them, according to the report.
Sichuan has reported at least 48 deaths by storm last week. A massive landslide that struck a picturesque resort outside the city of Dujiangyan in Sichuan on Wednesday killed 43 people, the ruling Communist Party's newspaper said on Saturday.
An entire hillside collapsed in clusters of cottages where city dwellers escape the summer heat, a survivor told Xinhua.
Floods in Sichuan was the worst in 50 years in some areas, with more than 220,000 people forced to evacuate.
Landslides and floods are common in the mountainous areas of China, killing hundreds of people every year, but in some areas the current floods are already the worst in the Middle century.
In the Northwestern Shaanxi Province, 23 people were killed in landslides or house collapses. At least 12 workers were killed in the North of Shanxi province when a violent storm collapsed a coal mine workshop unfinished. Three other people drowned in a car in Hebei province outside the capital.
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