Cause of landslide not known but engineer says 'poor drainage after prolonged rainfall' may have caused section of highway to collapse early on Wednesday After opening in late 2014, local media reported in 2015 that several tunnels on the highway were affected by landslides and water penetrating during construction The death toll after a highway gave way in China's rain-hit southern province of Guangdong on Wednesday had risen to 48 by

The death toll in an expressway collapse in South China's Guangdong Province early Wednesday has risen to 48, Xinhua reported, citing authorities.At the time the report was published, thirty injured people were receiving hospital treatment,

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV says that a section of a highway collapsed in southern China, killing at least 19 people