Landslide kills six in SW China

Six people were killed in a landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Thursday, local authorities said.

Police authorities in the city of Baoshan received a report at 4:30 p.m. saying six people in the city's Longyang district were killed after being buried in a landslide, the district's publicity department said in a statement late Thursday.

An investigation into the cause of the accident is under way.