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![]() by Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2019
Rescuers have retrieved the body of a final missing person in a northern China landslide, bringing the death toll to 20, local officials said Thursday. The incident last Friday in Shanxi province flattened several residential buildings and a public bathhouse. Authorities initially reported 10 deaths and 10 missing people. "As of 11:22 am (0322 GMT) on March 21, the last missing person in the... landslide has been found," the Shanxi Fire Department said in a statement on its official social media page. "There were 20 casualties in this incident." The post was accompanied by pictures of orange-clad rescuers carrying what appeared to be a filled body bag on a stretcher. The cause of the landslide has not been confirmed.
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