Rescuers in southwest China sift through landslide debris for 28 missing villagers

Emergency workers resumed their search on Sunday for more than two dozen villagers missing following a landslide in southwestern China.

The landslide occurred in the village of Jinping in Sichuan province at around 11.50am on Saturday, burying 10 houses and killing at least one person, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

Two people were pulled from the debris alive and sent to hospital on Saturday, and 28 remained missing on Sunday.

Hundreds of emergency personnel along with search-and-rescue dogs, vehicles, and drones were sent to scour the site.

As they resumed their search on Sunday morning in fog and drizzle, rocks continued to roll down the mountainside and the ground continued to shift, officials said.

Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong visited the injured at a Junlian county hospital on Sunday morning.