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In this Monday, June 14, 2010 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, an excavator works at the site of an accident where a rain-triggered landslide engulfed two vehicles in Nanping, east China's Fujian Province.
Landslides triggered by heavy rains hit at around 1.25 am crushing work sheds at a construction site in Pengta Town, Kangding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, according to the prefecture's public emergency command center.
While 17 persons are dead, six are still missing, Xinhua news agency reported.
Seven people were also injured in the accident, among whom three were severely wounded. The rescue work is still underway in the landslide-hit region.
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