A dashcam video posted on social media on Friday (July 17), showed a section of hillside collapsing onto homes and businesses below, sending debris across the road and forcing passing cars and a motorcycle to stop.

Reuters confirmed the location from business signage, windows and a utility pole, which matched archive and satellite images. The date of the footage was confirmed by the timestamp on dashcam footage, official and media reports of the landslide. Pengshui County confirmed in a statement that there was a landslide in the Hanjia District on the morning of July 17.

An unknown number of people were buried after a landslide struck a county in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing on Friday, causing multiple residential buildings downhill to collapse, according to state media.

Preliminary verification indicated that a Pengshui County community worker spotted scattered falling rocks around 8 a.m. local time (0000 GMT) and issued an emergency warning, state broadcaster CCTV said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the landslide.

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1. DASHCAM FOOTAGE OF MOMENT OF LANDSLIDE AHEAD OF VEHICLE

CHONGQING, CHINA (JULY 17, 2026) (ORIGINALLY FILMED IN PORTRAIT) (SOCIAL MEDIA - No Archive / No Resale / News Use Only)

2. PEOPLE ON STREET RUNNING AWAY FROM AREA HIT BY LANDSLIDE, (UPSOUND) (Mandarin) MAN SAYING: “Hurry up! Hurry up! All of you hurry up!”

CHONGQING, CHINA (JULY 17, 2026) (SOCIAL MEDIA - No Archive / No Resale / News Use Only)

3. LARGE BOULDERS FALLEN BESIDE BUILDINGS AFTER LANDSLIDE

CHONGQING, CHINA (JULY 17, 2026) (ORIGINALLY FILMED IN PORTRAIT) (SOCIAL MEDIA - No Archive / No Resale / News Use Only)

4. PEOPLE GATHERED LOOKING AT LARGE BOULDERS, AFTERMATH OF LANDSLIDE