Slim Chance after Mudslide Buries Miners

BEIJING — Searchers were continuing to look for miners buried when a landslide swept through a gold mine in an extensively cleared area of Tibet, but authorities said chances were slim any survivors would be found. Twenty-one bodies have been recovered from the mudslide that buried 83 workers in piles of earth up to 30 meters deep.

Searchers had found 21 bodies by Sunday night and were searching for the rest, the official China National Radio said. Chances were slim of finding anyone alive, the state-run Xinhua News Agency quoted the Communist Party deputy secretary for Tibet, Wu Yingjie, as saying.

Criticisms over possibly excessive mining in Tibet flashed through China's social media before they were scrubbed off or blocked from public view by censors.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang ordered authorities to "spare no efforts" in their rescue work, state media have reported

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