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malaise

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Sat Jun 24, 2017, 06:41 PM Jun 2017

That horrific landslide in China [View all]

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
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... Skittles Jun 2017 #1
Damn Leith Jun 2017 #2
Crying baby saved their lives secondwind Jun 2017 #3
They are calling it a first class catastrophic geologic disaster. FM123 Jun 2017 #4
Sure looks like one malaise Jun 2017 #5
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