The search is continuing for about two dozen missing people as the death toll rose to 20 from a landslide in southwestern China earlier this week.
State broadcaster CCTV says five more bodies have been found in Guizhou province, where the landslide buried 21 houses Tuesday night in a village in Shuicheng county.
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The latest victims included twoshu women and three children.
The official Xinhua News Agency says an estimated 25 people remain unaccounted for. Eleven others have been rescued.
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Another landslide earlier Tuesday left one dead and six missing at a highway construction site about 90 kilometres (55 miles) north in Guizhou province’s Hezhang county.
Heavy seasonal rains have caused extensive flooding and landslides across much of southern China.
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