Rescuers recovered four more bodies Tuesday from a deadly landslide in northern China, bringing the death toll to 258, state media said. The official Xinhua News agency said three bodies were pulled from a collapsed house, while another was found amid nearby debris in Shanxi province's Xiangfen county. The State Administration of Work Safety said 159 bodies had been identified as of Tuesday. The Sept. 8 landslide was triggered by the collapse of an illegal mining dump that buried a village of 1,300 residents in a torrent of mud and industrial mining waste. The governor of Shanxi has resigned from his post while his deputy was fired. Thirty-four people remain hospitalized and four patients have been upgraded from critical to stable condition.
