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Eleven killed after rockslide hits village in Yemen
Aug 28, 2009, 16:56 GMT
Sana'a, Yemen - Eleven people from the same family were killed after a rockslide crushed their house in a village in western Yemen, the official Saba news agency reported on Friday.
The agency said locals pulled 11 bodies from the rubble of the destroyed three-story house in the al-Madwar village of al-Mahweet province, some 110 kilometres west of the capital Sana'a.
Several other vacant houses were destroyed in the vicinity after the slide late Thursday.
Saba quoted head of al-Mahweet police operations Abdullah Maoudha as saying that the slide was caused by heavy torrential rains.
This was Yemen's second deadly rockslide in the course of three years.
In December 2005, a devastating mountain rockslide that hit a village situated on a rocky slope some 40 kilometres west of Sana'a, killing 65 people.
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