Rescuers carry survivor Cao Lele at the site of landslide at Shuanghuyu Village in Zizhou County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, on March 12, 2010. Twenty-year-old Cao Lele and his 17-year-old sister Cao Yanyan were rescued early Friday after being buried 54 hours following the landslide, which occurred early Wednesday. The landslide left 26 people dead among the total of 44 trapped. [Xinhua]

Two people were miraculously rescued Friday morning after being buried for 54 hours after a landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Rescuers said they found the 20-year-old man Cao Lele and his younger sister Cao Yanyan, aged 17, at 6:57 AM Friday, after hearing the young man's cry for help from beneath a collapsed floor.

Rescuers said the children huddled with their mother, who had already died, when they were found. The sister suffered a serious injury, but the brother was in much better conditions..

The death toll from the landslide that occurred at 1:30 AM Wednesday in Shuanghuyu Village, Zizhou County, had reached 26 as the rescue work ended Friday morning.

About 90,000 cubic meters of loess earth from a hill side crushed 25 houses, burying 44 people in the landslide. Six people escaped uninjured.