Eleven people were killed and 19 others seriously injured when a landslide hit nine vehicles in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported quoting sources at the publicity department of Maoxian County, where the incident took place.
The landslide occurred on a section of highway in the county with some 3,000 cubic meters of dirt and stone hitting a truck, seven cars and a pick-up truck.
The injured were taken to a local hospital expect for six serious cases that were transferred to a hospital in the city of Chengdu, the provincial capital.