BEIJING: The number of bodies recovered from a landslide that engulfed workers at a Chinese construction site rose to 26 on Monday with 13 people still missing, authorities said.

Heavy rain at the weekend buried a temporary shed used by workers at a hydropower station construction site in Fujian province, in the southeast, under 100,000 cubic meters of mud and rock, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

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