Landslides triggered by heavy rains in western China buried a village and knocked a bus off a highway, killing a total of 21 people, news reports said on Saturday.
A mudslide late on Friday swept through the village of Heba in Garze, an ethnic Tibetan region of Sichuan province, killing 12 people and injuring 18 others, the Xinhua news agency said.
Another 340 people were left homeless, the report said.
In the nearby county of Shimian, rains caused a rock to tumble down a hillside and slam into a bus, knocking the vehicle off the road and killing nine people, Xinhua said.
Shimian county is part of the city of Ya’an, while Garze is west of the city, Xinhua said.
The heavy rains on Thursday and Friday also damaged 3 000 houses, 4km of highway and thousands of hectares of farmland, Xinhua said. It said the local government was distributing tents, food and water. — Sapa-AP