Members of the media take pictures of rescue workers at the site of a landslide in the village of Xinmo, Mao County, Sichuan Province, China June 26, 2017. Picture taken June 26, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song
XINMO, China (Reuters) - Several Chinese journalists say they were pulled off reporting on the weekend's landslide in Sichuan on government orders as part of what they called increasing curbs on coverage of natural disasters under President Xi Jinping.
At least 73 people are missing and 10 people are confirmed to have been killed after the landslide engulfed Xinmo village in the mountainous southwestern province early on Saturday, according to the latest official figures on Wednesday.
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