The mud-rock flow has levelled an area of about five km long, 300 meters wide and 5 meters deep in the county seat with more than two million cubic meters of mud and rocks, severely damaging power, telecommunication and water supply facilities, China's official news agency Xinhua reported.
The death toll from the worst landslides in decades in a Tibetan-majority region in China's northwest rose sharply on Wednesday to 1,117 while 627 people were still missing, as rescuers scrambled hard to sift through thick layers of mud and rocks to find possible survivors.
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