Sixty-three people have been killed and 174 others are missing in heavy rains and landslides in China while over 500,000 people were evacuated as Typhoon Soulik lashed coastal areas in the east on Saturday. The death toll from a landslide in southwestern Sichuan Province has risen to 43 after 25 more bodies were retrieved, local authorities said. Rescuers had found 43 bodies from the landslide that took place on Wednesday in the village of Sanxi in Dujiangyan City, said Chen Yangjie, vice mayor of the city told media today. Some 118 people across the city were missing or cannot immediately be reached. Most of them are tourists, Xinhua news agency quoted Chen as saying.