BEIJING: A landslide killed nine people in a village in northern China on Monday, authorities said.
The disaster occurred in the village of Caijiazhuang shortly before 5:00 am (2100 GMT Sunday), Luliang municipal government in Shanxi province said on its official social media account.
More than a hundred firefighters, medical workers and rescuers -- some using earth-moving machinery -- were sent to the site to search for survivors trapped under fallen earth.
The cause of the landslide has not been confirmed.
A 2008 landslide in Luliang city killed 19 people.