That horrific landslide in China

[malaise]

http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/buried-alive-more-than-100-people-feared-dead-in-china-landslide/news-story/518115f06598e1e6e4f57bd4bc666f83
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RESCUERS have pulled 15 bodies from a massive landslide in China as the search continues for more than 100 others still trapped.

Only three survivors - a couple and their one-month-old baby - have been found so far after 62 homes in Xinmo village vanished under a mass of mud and rocks in Sichuan province.

Qiao Dashuai, the baby’s father, said he had woken up after 5am to change his crying son’s nappy when he “heard a big noise coming from the back”.

“The house shook,” he told state broadcaster CCTV from his hospital bed. “Rocks were in the living room. My wife and I climbed over, took the baby, and got out.”

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Saw the rescued baby on TV - lovely healthy infant

[Skittles]

1. ...

[Leith]

2. Damn

Just damn.

China gets the most horrific natural disasters. An earthquake can kill 100,000+ people. Typhoons leave more than a million homeless. Same with floods.

That family is lucky to be alive.

[secondwind]

3. Crying baby saved their lives

[FM123]

4. They are calling it a first class catastrophic geologic disaster.

I feel so sad for what they went and are still going through, my heart breaks for them. Just because geography separates us and they are on the other side of the world, it doesn't mean they are not our brothers and sisters.

[malaise]

5. Sure looks like one

and yes we're all brothers and sisters