Death toll in China landslide rises to 337
The Associated Press, Zhouqu | Mon, 08/09/2010 9:55 PM
Chinese state media says the death toll in Sunday's massive landslide has risen to 337.
The Party chief of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the northwestern province of Gansu tells the state-run Xinhua News Agency that more than 1,100 people are still missing.
The disaster happened as a debris-blocked swollen river burst, swamping entiremountain villages in the county seat of Zhouqu and ripping homes from their foundations.
It is the deadliest incident in China's worst flooding in a decade.
