Residents of Chadiyara village have lodged a complaint against the illegal cutting of a hill.

Two houses were damaged following a landslide on Tuesday.

Chinese authorities have formally arrested 11 people for their role in a deadly landslide last month in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen and charged them with negligently causing a serious acciden

The storms hitting southern Brazil over the past few weeks have caused 17 towns in Rio Grande do Sul state to declare a state of emergency, local authorities said Tuesday.

China's southern province of Guangdong, one of the country's biggest industrial bases, will check all construction waste sites in the wake of a deadly landslide to ensure none are in dangerous loca

Chinese authorities raided the offices of a company managing the dump site where a killer landslide left 76 people missing, while government records showed the firm was not qualified to do the job.

The first survivor was found and 74 people were still missing on Wednesday at the site where a giant flow of mud and construction waste engulfed buildings in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Sunday

The number of missing people in a massive landslide in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province stood at 85 on Monday as State authorities and local governments vowed to look into the cause of the tragedy.

At least 91 people were missing after a huge mound of mud and construction waste collapsed at a business park in southern China and buried 33 buildings in the country's latest industrial disaster.

Nepal's earthquake in April 2015 was frightening. It killed thousands of people and left others without homes.

The impacts stemming from the big earthquakes that struck Nepal earlier this year could have been much, much worse, say scientists.

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