Rescuers are digging through tonnes of earth and rubble for 49 people who are missing after a landslide buried an open-pit mine.
The death toll in the disaster has now risen to five as conditions in the area remain dangerous and the search had to be suspended for several hours after a second landslide hit the gigantic facility in Inner Mongolia’s Alxa League in northern China.
The initial cave-in of one of the pit’s walls struck at around 1pm local time on Wednesday, burying people and mining trucks who were working below in tonnes of rocks and sand.
