One person was killed and seven others are missing after a landslide swept through a highway construction site in central China.
Six people have been found alive, and injuries have been reported in the landslide, officials in Hubei Province said Monday.
For its part, the Chinese Ministry of Emergency Management sent a working group to the site of the accident, and the Minister of Emergency Management urged the authorities to find out the cause of the landslide.
Heavy rains in parts of China over several weeks led to a number of landslides, and last month 19 people were killed in a landslide at a mine in Sichuan Province, and the Chinese government issued warnings about rain and other natural disasters.
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