China mudslide buries dozens - Telegraph Lin Rui, who was driving a minivan across the bridge and swam to safety through a torrential river, said there were 15 to 18 vehicles on the structure at the time. "There were several cars ahead of me," he told state broadcaster CCTV. A bus or a coach, I can't remember clearly, was running ahead. Local authorities have said six vehicles were missing and denied any busses or coaches fell into the water. Several major rivers were seeing "excessive water levels," the report said. Mountainous areas in China's southwest are prone to landslides and earthquakes. A landslide east of the Tibetan capital Lhasa buried 83 mine workers in April when it crushed their camp. In January 46 people - many of them children - were killed in a landslide in Yunnan province, after more than 1,000 rescuers worked in freezing temperatures overnight in search of survivors. China's deadliest natural disaster in three decades struck in Sichuan in 2008, when an earthquake left more than 80,000 people dead. Shoddy building construction was blamed for the high toll.