BEIJING: The death toll from a landslide triggered by flooding in China rose to 38 Thursday, with no
more missing, officials and state-run media said.
An avalanche of mud and rock caused by torrential rains engulfed 27 homes last Friday in Lishui in the eastern province of Zhejiang, reports said.
Only one person escaped and more than 2,300 rescuers and 60 digging machines were deployed to search for the victims, but their efforts were repeatedly interrupted by rain and at least one more landslide, they said.
Two bodies were found Thursday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
There were no indications of any more missing, Lishui authorities said on social media. Initially only 38 people were thought to have been at the scene, but it said the body of a previously unrecorded migrant
worker had been also been recovered.
China landslide deaths rise to 38
