AFP quoted Chinese authorities as saying that no survivors have yet been found a day after 83 copper mine workers were buried in a huge landslide in Tibet despite a high altitude search. 'Rescuers have not yet found survivors or bodies.
The landslide struck on Friday morning. The miners' camp at an altitude of 4600 meters and 70 kilometers east of Lhasa was destroyed by thousands of tonnes of rock.
Hundreds of rescuers battled difficult terrain in the hunt for survivors after a vast, three kilometer long section of land with a volume of 2 million cubic metres, crashed down a slope, covering the camp.
The workers in Maizhokunggar worked for a subsidiary of the China National Gold Group Corporation, a state owned enterprise and the country's largest gold producer.
