Landslides in China, 100 people may be buried

The landslide fell down to 40 houses in a village in Sichuan province earlier, more than 100 people may have been trapped under the rock.

Sichuan Province authorities in China said they have deployed emergency rescue units to Xin Ma Village, Mao County to seek and help victims in the landslide this morning, according to AFP.

Currently head of landslide in Sichuan, China.(Video: Xinhua) .

About 40 houses in the Tan Ma village were buried after one side of the mountain slumped, forming a pile of rocks about 2km long, blocking a river. Authorities fear about 100 people are trapped in landslides.

Mao's district government said the units that responded to the "first-level catastrophic geological disaster" were on their way to the landslide. There has not been a full assessment of the total level of landslide.

Current landslide scene this morning - (Photo: news.cn).

Xinhua said "a part of a mountain" in Tibet and the autonomous region of the Jiang, Sichuan, collapsed at 6 am this morning. Landslides are a common danger in rural and mountainous areas in China, especially when there is heavy rain.

At least 12 people were killed in a January landslide in a hotel in central Hubei province. In October 2016, at least 8 people died in landslides in eastern China after the country suffered heavy rains from Typhoon Megi.

Current landslide scene - (Photo: news.cn).

The ground also blocked a river - (Photo: news.cn).