Rain turns deadly in western China
• 340 people left homeless, report says
• 3,000 houses damaged, as are thousands of acres of farmland, Xinhua reports
• Tents, food, water being distributed, Xinhua says
BEIJING, China (AP) -- Landslides triggered by heavy rains in western China buried a village and knocked a bus off a highway, killing a total of 21 people, news reports said Saturday.
A mudslide late Friday swept through the village of Heba in Garze, an ethnic Tibetan region of Sichuan province, killing 12 people and injuring 18 others, the Xinhua News Agency said.
Another 340 people were left homeless, the report said.
In the nearby county of Shimian, rains caused a rock to tumble down a hillside and slam into a bus, knocking the vehicle off the road and killing nine people, Xinhua said.
The heavy rains Thursday and Friday also damaged 3,000 houses and thousands of acres of farmland, Xinhua said.
It said the local government was distributing tents, food and water
