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Sunday, 31 March 2013

All-out rescue for buried miners in Tibet

Fifteen more bodies were retrieved on Sunday at the site of a mining area landslide in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.


As of 9:15 p.m., a total of 17 bodies have been recovered since the landslide occurred two and a half days ago in Maizhokunggar County, about 68 km from regional capital Lhasa. Another 66 miners remain missing.


In two locations near the area where the new bodies were found, rescuers retrieved articles such as tents, clothes and kitchen knives, according to rescuers.


That has led them to believe more miners might be buried under debris at these two locations.


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