CHENGDU -- Eleven people were confirmed dead and 19 others seriously injured after a landslide hit nine vehicles in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday afternoon.
The landslide occurred around 2:45 p.m. on a section of the No. 213 National Highway in Maoxian County, according to sources with the county's publicity department.
Some 3,000 cubic meters of dirt and stone hit a truck, seven cars and a pick-up truck.
The injured have been sent to a local hospital. As of 6:40 p.m., six seriously injured people had been transferred to the Huaxi Hospital in the city of Chengdu, the provincial capital.
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