LHASA, April 3 (Xinhua) --
The names, genders and registered
permanent addresses of all 83 victims
of a landslide in a mountainous
mining area in Tibet were released
by the rescue headquarters on
Wednesday.
According to a
rescue headquarters statement, 27 of the 83
mine workers who have been confirmed
dead or are still buried under
rocks and mud were natives of
northeastern China's Jilin Province
and 26 were from the northwestern
China's Shaanxi
Province.
Thirteen were from
southwestern China's Guizhou Province,
six were from the neighboring province
of Sichuan, and three were from
northeastern China's Liaoning
Province.
Two were from a
village in Gyangze county of Tibet
and two came from the municipality
of Chongqing. The remaining four were
from provinces of Hebei, Henan,
Shandong and Heilongjiang.
Of
the 83, only four were
females.
Rescuers had pulled 66
bodies out of the debris by
Wednesday afternoon, five-and-a-half days
after the landslide swept through
workers' camps of the Jiama Copper
Polymetallic Mine, according to the
rescue headquarters. Seventeen remained
buried.
The mine is run
by Tibet Huatailong Mining Development
Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the
country's largest gold producer, China
National Gold Group
Corporation.