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Shasta: two children killed in hillside collapse following California storms

Body of water and mountains behind a large, grey dam
Shasta dam near Shasta, California, on 22 February 2008. Photograph: Rich Pedroncelli/AP

Two children were killed when a hillside collapsed along a river in northern California, which has been hit by a series of winter storms.

The Shasta county sheriff’s office said in a statement that the two victims were caught in debris that came down from a hillside near Shasta dam on Thursday morning and had fallen down the hillside. They were pronounced dead at the scene, the office said.

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