Nineteen children among 46 dead in China landslide
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Chinese paramilitary policemen dig through a landslide to search for victims in the Zhaojiagou village in Zhenxiong county in south-west China's Yunnan province on Friday, Jan 11, 2013. Three people remain missing after a landslide which killed 43, including seven from a single family, struck a remote village in China. -- PHOTO: AP
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A woman grieves after her relatives were killed during a landslide in Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Chinese rescue workers carry a dead body they found while searching for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, south-west China's Yunnan province on on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
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A crane is seen as rescuers search for buried victims after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Rescuers search for victims after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province, on Jan 11, 2013. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead, two others injured and dozens more remain buried after a landslide hit a mountainous region in southwest China's Yunnan province on Friday, local authorities said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Paramilitary policemen search for survivors after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province, on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: Copyright: REUTERS
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A Chinese excavator and rescue workers search for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Chinese rescue workers search for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Chinese paramilitary policemen and other rescue workers dig through a landslide to search for victims in the Zhaojiagou village in Zhenxiong county in southwest China's Yunnan province Friday, on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
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Chinese rescue workers carry a dead body they found while searching for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Rescuers search for survivors after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. The death toll from a landslide that hit a mountainous region in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday has risen to 42, after more bodies were retrieved, Xinhua News Agency reported. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Rescuers search for survivors after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Chinese paramilitary policemen dig through a landslide to search for victims in the Zhaojiagou village in Zhenxiong county in south-west China's Yunnan province on Friday, Jan 11, 2013. Three people remain missing after a landslide which killed 43, including seven from a single family, struck a remote village in China. -- PHOTO: AP
A woman grieves after her relatives were killed during a landslide in Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Chinese rescue workers carry a dead body they found while searching for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, south-west China's Yunnan province on on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
A crane is seen as rescuers search for buried victims after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Rescuers search for victims after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province, on Jan 11, 2013. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead, two others injured and dozens more remain buried after a landslide hit a mountainous region in southwest China's Yunnan province on Friday, local authorities said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Paramilitary policemen search for survivors after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province, on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: Copyright: REUTERS
A Chinese excavator and rescue workers search for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
Chinese rescue workers search for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
Chinese paramilitary policemen and other rescue workers dig through a landslide to search for victims in the Zhaojiagou village in Zhenxiong county in southwest China's Yunnan province Friday, on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
Chinese rescue workers carry a dead body they found while searching for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
Rescuers search for survivors after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. The death toll from a landslide that hit a mountainous region in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday has risen to 42, after more bodies were retrieved, Xinhua News Agency reported. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Rescuers search for survivors after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province on Jan 11, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
BEIJING (AFP) - A desperate search for three people missing in a landslide in south-western China ended on Saturday when their bodies were pulled from the mud, taking the final death toll to 46 - many of them children.
Authorities in Yunnan province said that the last three bodies were recovered on Saturday morning after a night of frantic efforts by more than 1,000 rescue workers to locate the final missing residents of the remote village of Gaopo.
The official Xinhua news agency said those buried included 27 adults and 19 children.
Two other people were hospitalised after the landslide struck on Friday morning, engulfing 16 homes, bringing a thunderous crash and throwing up thick clouds of dust, Xinhua said.
