Landslide kills 18 school children in China's Yunnan province

Scene of landslide in Yiliang, Yunnan, China on 4/10/12

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5 October 2012 Last updated at 04:13 ET Help

Eighteen children have been confirmed dead after a landslide buried their primary school in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan.

Tiantou Primary School and nearby houses were hit by the landslide on Thursday morning in Yiliang county.

The BBC's Bill Hayton reports.

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