Rescuers being evacuated as secondary landslide forecast

Rescuers searching for victims trapped by a landslide in southwest China's Sichuan Province were ordered to be evacuated, as risks of a secondary landslide were forecast Monday morning.

Rescuers search for survivors after a landslide in Xinmo Village of Maoxian County, Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 25, 2017. Fifteen people had been taken off the list of missing people after the landslide in Sichuan early Saturday, leaving 93 still missing. [Photo: Xinhua]

The Sichuan provincial work safety bureau issued the order at 11:10 a.m., after radar monitoring found the moving and deformation of the hillside in Maoxian County, where the landslide occurred on Saturday.

Rescuers searching for victims trapped by a landslide in southwest China's Sichuan Province were ordered to be evacuated, as risks of a secondary landslide were forecast Monday morning. [Photo: CNR]