Dossier
forest maintenance
Coverage of forest maintenance in the Nexus archive.
- 21 who died in landslide in northwest China were forestry workers
A landslide in northwest China's Gansu province killed 21 forestry workers and injured seven others. The disaster occurred in an uninhabited valley during a forest maintenance operation, with preliminary assessments citing steep terrain, erosion, and geological factors as causes. Rescue operations concluded after excavators cleared debris from the 40-meter-wide landslide.