Death toll from China’s Guangdong highway collapse rises to 48 as President Xi Jinping orders maximum push to save lives
Cause of landslide not known but engineer says 'poor drainage after prolonged rainfall' may have caused section of highway to collapse early on Wednesday After opening in late 2014, local media reported in 2015 that several tunnels on the highway were affected by landslides and water penetrating during construction The death toll after a highway gave way in China's rain-hit southern province of Guangdong on Wednesday had risen to 48 by