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Death toll rises to 17 in N. China landslide

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-26 20:08

TAIYUAN -- Rescuers recovered six bodies at the site of a landslide on Friday, pushing the death toll from the tragedy in north China's Shanxi Province to 17.

The landslide toppled a waste dump of a local iron mine and buried Sigou Village in Loufan County in the suburbs of the provincial capital Taiyuan on August 1.

Eleven dead bodies had been found by August 16.

Families complained at least 34 others had been trapped under more than 800,000 cubic meters of rocks and waste from the mine.