Eighty-three workers have been buried after a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Tibet. Source: AAP
RESCUE teams have found the first body almost 36 hours after a giant landslide in Tibet buried 83 mine workers.
Xinhua news agency said rescuers "found the first body at 5.35 pm (8.35pm AEDT)", after two million cubic metres of earth buried a copper mine workers' camp in Maizhokunggar county, east of the Tibetan capital Lhasa, at 6 am on Friday.
The report came after officials said at a press conference Saturday that no survivors or bodies had been found.
About 2,000 rescuers battled difficult terrain in the hunt for survivors after a vast three-kilometre-long section of land, with a volume of two million cubic metres, crashed down a slope, covering the miners' camp.
The rescuers braved bad weather as an emergency response team attempted to prevent a secondary disaster.
One rescue worker had earlier described the chance of survivors being found as "slim", Xinhua reported.
China's new president Xi Jinping and new premier Li Keqiang had ordered "top efforts" to rescue the victims, Xinhua said.
Mountainous regions of Tibet are prone to landslides, which can be exacerbated by heavy mining activity.
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