Sichuan landslide confirms first death

One of the five previously reported missing individuals has been confirmed dead as of 6 pm on Wednesday after a mountain landslide hit a village early Wednesday morning in Xuyong county of Luzhou, Sichuan province, the local emergency management bureau said.

Debris from the landslide buried a residential house and its occupants in Shizhuang village of Zhengdong township, according to a post on the official WeChat account of Luzhou's emergency management bureau.

More than 400 rescuers, including firefighters, emergency response teams, armed police, and militia, were mobilized for rescue operations.

Five observation posts equipped with six sets of monitoring systems were set up for real-time monitoring of the landslide area, the bureau said.

Search and rescue efforts are still underway.