Rescuers digging for victims of a massive landslide at a gold mining site in mountainous Tibet found one body Saturday, a day after 83 workers were buried in the disaster, Chinese state media reported. The fate of the other victims was unknown. According to AP, the workers were buried early Friday when about 2 million cubic meters (2.6 million cubic yards) of mud, rock and debris swept through the mine in Gyama village in Maizhokunggar county and covered an area measuring around 4 square kilometers (1.5 square miles). More than 3,000 rescuers equipped with sniffer dogs and excavators were scouring the high-altitude, mountainous area on Saturday, but search efforts were slowed after snow started to fall early in the afternoon, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Xinhua said the body was retrieved at 5:35 p.m., nearly 36 hours after the landslide slammed through the area and buried the workers, who were believed to have been sleeping in their tents. The area is about 70 kilometers (45 miles) east of Lhasa, the regional capital.
