DARRINGTON: Emergency managers said they were close to announcing a "substantially" higher death toll from the monster US landslide that killed at least 16 and left 90 missing.

The confirmed number of dead stands at 16 with at least eight more bodies believed located after the massive mudslide crashed onto the town of Oso in the northwestern US state of Washington.

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