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2 Rescued in Shaanxi Landslide

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-12 10:45

Soldiers carry the body of a victim at the site of a landslide at Shuanghuyu Village in Zizhou County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province on March 11, 2010. The landslide, which occurred early Wednesday, has left 23 people dead and 5 others missing, according to local government.[Photo/Xinhua]

Two people were miraculously rescued Friday morning after being buried for 54 hours after a landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Rescuers said they found the 20-year-old man Cao Lele and his younger sister Cao Yanyan, aged 17, at 6:57 a.m. Friday, after hearing the young man's cry for help from beneath a collapsed floor.

Rescuers said the children huddled with their mother, who had already died, when they were found. The sister suffered a serious injury, but the brother was in much better conditions.

The death toll from the landslide that occurred at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in Shuanghuyu Village, Zizhou County, had reached 26 as the rescue work ended Friday morning.

About 90,000 cubic meters of loess earth from a hill side crushed 25 houses, burying 44 people in the landslide. Six people escaped uninjured.