Bad weather and landslides in China left at least 28 people dead, Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. Sixteen workers died when a landslide buried a brick factory in Luliang in Shanxi Province on Friday, the local government said. An unknown number of workers were still missing. One worker was rescued, DPA reported. Meanwhile a dozen people were killed and over a million and a half affected by rainstorms lashing southern China over two days, local authorities said Friday. The torrential rains destroyed more than 10,000 houses, disrupted traffic and caused landslides in the provinces of Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Anhui, as well as Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Five people were killed in landslides and house collapses in Guangxi while a storm in Shenzhen city, Guangdong Province, killed six on Friday. Four of them died after their houses collapsed while a couple selling fruit were electrocuted, officials said. The rainstorm cut traffic, delayed airlines and caused landslides In the city neighbouring Hong Kong. In eastern Jiangxi Province a woman died in a landslide.
