Chinese rescuers retrieve 9 bodies after landslide in mountainous southwest buries 47

BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers in southwestern China’s mountainous Yunnan province have retrieved nine bodies after a landslide buried 47 people in a remote village. Two people were rescued and about 500 were evacuated from the area. The disaster struck just before 6 a.m. on Monday in the village of Liangshui, where victims were buried in some 18 separate houses. Survivors and rescuers were dealing with snow and freezing temperatures that were forecast to persist for at least the next three days. The landslide came just over a month after China’s most powerful earthquake in years struck to the northwest. At least 149 people were killed in the magnitude 6.2 temblor on Dec. 18.