12 died when landslide hit Hubei hotel
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RESCUERS have retrieved the bodies of 10 people killed when a landslide smashed into a hotel in central China, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
The three-story Mirage Hotel in Hubei Province was covered by 3,000 cubic meters of debris that poured down a slope behind the building at 7:30pm on Friday, Xinhua said.
The owner of the hotel, He Dahui, was among those killed in the disaster.
The landslide dropped rocks of up to 150 tons and trapped 15 people in the hotel’s first-floor restaurant.
Rescuers pulled five people from the rubble, but two died in hospital, Xinhua said.
Concerns about a further collapse delayed rescue work by five hours, it said.
Geological expert Nie Haitao said that rainwater seeping down through rock fissures had affected stability, and caused a sudden collapse after frequent freezing and melting.
The hotel was built in 2007.
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