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2 rescued after being buried for 54 hours in Shaanxi landslide
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March 12, 2010, Friday
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TWO people were miraculously rescued this 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 am 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.
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 am 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.
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