Rescuers retrieved four bodies at the site of a landslide in north China on Tuesday morning, pushing up the death toll in the tragedy to 258.

Searching work was going on in Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province, where the mudflow burst out on September 8 after the collapse of an iron ore dump. Huge amounts of ore waste, mud and rock flowed downward, burying downstream residents along with a busy outdoor market.

(Xinhua News Agency September 16, 2008)