Heavy rain caused a retaining wall to collapse at a recycling plant in
the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao on Sunday, killing 18 people, state
media reported.
The wall that collapsed crushed a house for workers in which 40 people
were gathered, the Qingdao government information office said.
The wall collapsed due to waterlogging after a rainstorm, the official
Xinhua News Agency reported. It said 18 people were killed and three
others were injured.
Authorities were investigating the collapse.
China's eastern coastal and southern regions have been drenched by heavy
rains in recent days. Two other deaths in Hunan province and Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region were linked to the rains as flooding and
landslides hit swaths of the country.
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