Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, March 18, 2004
Bodies of 9 Chinese victims of Kazakhstan landslide back home
An airliner carrying the bodies of nine Chinese who died in a landslide in southern Kazakhstan landed 11:00 pm Wednesday at the airport of this capital city of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
An airliner carrying the bodies of nine Chinese who died in a landslide in southern Kazakhstan landed 11:00 pm Wednesday at the airport of this capital city of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The landslide, as a result of several days of heavy rain, occurred early Sunday local time in Talgar district, about 20 kilometers east of the economic capital Alma-Ata.
The landslide destroyed an apartment block of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in Kazakhstan and nine Chinese CNPC staff were buried and found dead.
The landslide totally caused 28 deaths, and Chinese President Hu Jintao has expressed condolences over the disaster in a message to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.