Beijing, July 15: Rescuers have given up hope of finding any survivors among the 62 people who are missing in two separate rock-mud flow accidents in southwest and central China. Rescuers were still searching for the 50 people who went missing in severe mud-rock flows on Friday in Danba county of southwest China's Sichuan province, state media reported.
Seventy-one people trapped in a zone sandwiched between two mud-rock flows have been transferred to safe areas. Only one person has been confirmed dead, it said.
Reports said that the deceased was a lady tourist from Shanghai and the missing people included 46 residents in three villages, four tourists and one employee of a tourist agency in Chengdu, the provincial capital.

The mud-rock flows have impacted a fan-shaped area over 200,000 square meters wide with rocks on average three to five meters thick.

Police personnel have been digging at the site, but had found none of the missing people, Xinhua news agency reported.
A separate report from Yichang in central China's hubei province said that the chances of finding alive 12 people missing in a major landslide in Zigui county on Sunday are rapidly fading.

The death toll from the landslide has risen to 12, and 1,200 people in risk areas have been safely evacuated.
Bureau Report