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By Wang Ru in Xiangfen and Wu Jiao in Beijing | China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-12 07:43

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Rescuers yesterday were still searching for people missing after hundreds of thousands of tons of liquid iron-ore waste flowed downhill from a mine's dump in Shanxi province, as the death toll rose to 151.

The Tashan Mine iron-ore waste dump's wall broke on Monday, causing a massive landslide that buried an entire village and a market in Xiangfen county.

The dump was about to burst its banks on Monday after being filled to more than capacity, and rain precipitated the process.

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