Tourist killed as landslide hits tour bus in China

Saturday, 15 Aug, 2016 0

One tourist was killed and two others seriously injured when a fast moving landslide slammed in to a tour bus in southeastern China’s Fujian Province.

The bus carrying 21 Taiwanese tourists was struck by the mudslide in heavy rain in a mountainous area near Longyan City.

The vehicle was hit by falling rocks and mud and overturned, the local government said.

The stricken bus was almost buried in a sea of mud and it took rescuers about two hours to free all the occupants via a roof hatch.

The dead passenger was identified as a 50-year-old woman from Chiayi, southern Taiwan.

All other occupants were taken to local hospitals for treatment.



 

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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.



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