One person was killed, three others injured and four remain buried after a landslide hit an expressway construction site in southwest China's Guizhou Province early Sunday, local authorities said.
The landslide happened at around 5 a.m. in Diliang village, Tianzhu County, where a makeshift dormitory for construction workers of China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group Co., Ltd was buried.
Rescuers have pulled four of eight workers who had been buried. One worker died and the three injured have been sent to a nearby hospital.
Rescue work for the other four buried people is underway.
Local authorities are investigating the cause of the landslide.
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