Nothing found in hunt for 83 miners buried in Tibet landslide

Source: Daily Telegraph

Search teams using sniffer dogs and radar combed the mountainside throughout the night after a two-mile section of land buried a copper mine workers' camp in Maizhokunggar county, east of Tibetan capital Lhasa.

Chinese officials made the grim announcement that no survivors had been found at a press conference at 10.00 am Saturday, reported by state media nearly two hours later. The landslide struck at about 6.00 am Friday (2200 GMT Thursday).

"Rescuers have not yet found survivors or bodies," authorities were quoted by the official Xinhua news agency as saying.

The Tibetan landslide came on the same day as a gas blast in a northeast China coal mine which killed 28 people. State media said 13 others were rescued after the accident at Babao Coal Mine in the city of Baishan in Jilin province.

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