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HONG KONG - Two people were killed in Hong Kong on Saturday when their hut was crushed in a landslide triggered by the some of the worst rain here since records began, a report said.
The landslide sent a 20-tonne wall crashing onto the hut that the pair, a man and a woman, were sleeping in, local broadcaster RTHK reported on its web site.
Emergency workers used cranes to lift the wall and dug a tunnel to reach the pair, but they were dead by the time rescuers reached them, it said.
Authorities in the southern Chinese territory warned people to beware of further landslides and opened emergency shelters for people in need of accomodation.
The Hong Kong Observatory said more than 200 millimetres (eight inches) of rain was dumped overnight on the city, which experienced winds of up to 70 kilometres (43 miles) an hour.
Between 8:00 am and 9:00 am alone it recorded 145.5 millimetres, the highest hourly rainfall since records began.
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