11.   Relief efforts began Saturday morning, but it was not immediately clear when the landslide occurred.

12.   The landslide occurred along the Yinjiang River after a sudden downpour last Thursday in the northeastern part of Guizhou province, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

13.   The landslides occurred on a highway on the western outskirts of San Salvador that connects the capital to cities in the west and on the border with Guatemala.

14.   The landslide occurred in one of the most rugged and environmentally volatile regions of Afghanistan, where the Pamir Mountains meet the Hindu Kush mountain range.

15.   The landslide occurred sometime after midnight on Thursday while villagers slept, he said.

16.   The landslides occurred on Wednesday, but remoteness of the area hampered quick relief measures.

17.   The landslide occurred in the southern Russian region of North Ossetia, injuring one road construction worker who was taken to a hospital, ITAR-Tass said.

18.   The newspaper Kompas said the landslide occurred at Abepura in the eastern part of Irian Jaya on Tuesday.

19.   According to Xinhua, the landslide occurred after several days of continuous rain.

20.   The train passed the spot just after the landslide occurred, which was apparently caused by heavy rains in the past three days, NHK said.