SICHUAN PROVINCE, China (Reuters) – Rescue workers in southwestern China pulled bodies out of piles of rock and mud on Sunday (June 25) as they searched for 93 people missing after a landslide buried a mountain village, with some residents giving up hope of finding survivors.
A huge landslide crashed down on the village of Xinmo, in mountainous Sichuan province, as dawn broke on Saturday.
Authorities at the scene said on Sunday that 10 bodies had been confirmed recovered, contradicting a report by the Xinhua state news agency on Saturday saying that 15 people had been confirmed killed.
On Sunday industrial excavators removed rubble at the site of the landslide while workers in hard hats searched for signs of life as relatives of the lost cried or looked on stone-faced nearby
