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Wails of grief echoed through a northwest Chinese town half-smothered by a landslide two days ago, as relatives washed mud-caked bodies pulled from ruins and the official death toll mounted.
China has sent thousands of rescue workers to help search for survivors of deadly landslides that swept through a county in the northwest of the country.
Mudslides engulfed a town in northwest China on Sunday, killing at least 127 people and leaving nearly 1,300 residents missing as rescue teams dug out crushed homes and tried to blast away debris clogging a river.
Chinese police have detained a man who stabbed three children to death after going on the rampage at a kindergarten in the east of the country, state media said on Wednesday, in a new outbreak of traumatic school violence.
Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China's massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can stand on it, state media said on Monday.
Emergency teams in north-east China are continuing to search a major river for barrels of toxic chemicals. Some 7,000 barrels were swept into the river in Jilin province on Wednesday; 3,000 contained the liquid chemicals.
At least 12 people died and 15 were seriously injured on Wednesday after an explosion at an abandoned plastics and chemicals factory in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, state television said.
Workers at Japanese electronics maker Omron's southern China factory have gone on strike, the latest disruption in the manufacturing hub over demands for better wages and working conditions.
Three Chinese police officers have been disciplined for beating up the wife of a senior local official.
China is boosting effort to clean up a major oil slick off its north-east coast, following a pipeline explosion. There are growing fears that strong winds have dispersed the pollution more widely than previously thought.