KUNMING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province rose to 17 Wednesday as two more bodies were recovered, local government sources said.
Rescuers are still searching for the five people believed missing more than three days after the disaster. The landslide occurred at 12:40 p.m. Sunday at Xiaoba Village, Weixin County of Zhaotong, after almost four days of torrential rain.
The excavation work was more risky due to more possible landslides, county officials said, adding they were still verifying the list of the missing as there were few survivors.
Tang Guoqian, head of the county publicity department, had earlier said there was little hope of finding the missing alive.
The victims and the missing people were coal mine managers and miners from Zhaotong, which administers Weixin, and from Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality.
The landslide destroyed two buildings of the Huajiaba Coal Mine at the site. Two injured people were in stable condition in hospital.
Local government officials said the landslide was the result of unsafe quarry production.
Another landslide occurred an hour earlier in Linfeng Township, Weixin County, killing four passers-by.
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