Eight killed in China landslide

HANGZHOU - Eight people have been killed in a landslide in east China’s Zhejiang province, a doctor said Wednesday.

The doctor with the People’s Hospital in Jiande City told Xinhua news agency that the eight people, who had been buried in the landslide, had been already dead when they were sent to hospital.

The landslide buried part of a factory at 2.30 p.m. in Daciyan Town, Jiande City, trapping six men and two women workers, said Yan Weihua, of the publicity department of Jiande Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.