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Extreme weather kills 21 ultra-marathon runners in China CNN 32 mins ago By Jenni Marsh © STR/AFP/Getty Images Rescuers carry equipment search for runners who were competing in a 100-kilometer cross-country mountain race when extreme weather hit the area, leaving at least 21 dead, near the city of Baiyin in China's northwestern Gansu province. Twenty one ultra-marathon runners have died after extreme weather conditions hit a 100-kilometer (62-mile) mountain race in northwest China. The high-altitude Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon began on Saturday morning in sunny condi...

Towns, now covered in mud and water. cnn's senior international correspondent, john voss has more. >> the deadly landslide was triggered by torrential rain according to local tv reports. a wall of mud and sludge, 500 meters wide and five kilometers long swept through gansu county in western china, it happened in the dark of night around midnight saturday local time. hundreds have been rescued. houses, cars and bridges were all swept away. hospitals were badly damaged. and a hydro electric power station was also destroyed. emergency crews have been hampered by the sheer amount of mud. two meter...