This article was first published on August 26, 1976.Tragedy hits Sau Mau PingAt least seven people, including four children, were killed by the landslide that hit Sau Mau Ping Estate yesterday (August 25, 1976).Yesterday’s disaster was only a few blocks away from a slope which slipped on June 18, 1972, killing 67 people.Fire Services teams, assisted by the Army, spent the night under search lights trying to locate people still not accounted for and thought to be buried under tons of mud which engulfed half the ground floor of Block 9 — housing about 1,200 people.
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Landslide kills 18 people in Hong Kong’s Sau Mau Ping – SCMP archive
This article was first published on August 26, 1976. Tragedy hits Sau Mau Ping At least seven people, including four children, were killed by the landslide that hit Sau Mau Ping Estate yesterday (August 25, 1976). Yesterday’s disaster was only a few blocks away from a slope which slipped on June 18,
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