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A landslide caused by flooding in central China's Hunan province killed six people on Sunday, state media reported. The disaster "caused a one-storey guesthouse to collapse," state broadcaster CCTV said.
"It has been initially confirmed that 18 people were buried," CCTV reported, adding that six bodies and six injured survivors had been recovered so far.
The landslide was caused by flash flooding on a mountain, according to CCTV.
China has suffered a summer of extreme weather, with flash floods in northern and southwest China killing at least 20 people earlier this month.
And in May, a highway in southern China collapsed after days of rain, leaving 48 dead.
China is the world's current largest emitter of the greenhouse gases that scientists say drive climate change and make extreme weather more frequent and intense.
Long dependent on polluting energy sources such as coal, China has pledged to bring emissions of planet-heating carbon dioxide to a peak by 2030 and to net zero by 2060.
But it is already the world's largest producer of renewable energy, with research this month showing Beijing is building almost twice as much solar and wind power capacity as the rest of the world combined.
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