DUJIANGYAN - At least 10,000 people remained buried Tuesday in a single city in China's Sichuan province following a massive earthquake, Xinhua news agency said.
The disaster occurred in the city of Mianzhu, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) southeast of the epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude quake that struck on Monday, the report said.
It also mentioned a separate "toll" of 1,500 for the city, without specifying whether the figure referred to deaths or all casualties.
37 tourists killed in China quake landslide: report
Thirty-seven tourists were killed when their coach was buried in a landslide after a massive earthquake in southwest China while separately officials said they had lost contact with 15 British tourists, state media reported Tuesday.
The coach was buried by a landslide in Maoxian county in Tibetan populated Aba prefecture in Sichuan province, Xinhua news agency said, quoting a spokesman with the provincial emergency management office.
Separately, the spokesman said about 15 Britons were among 2,000 tourists stranded in Aba prefecture and out of contact, it said.
He said the British tourists were probably in Wolong, home to the famed Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Centre.