ZIZHOU.March 12. KAZINFORM Two people were miraculously rescued Friday morning after being buried for 54 hours after a landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

Rescuers said they found the 20-year-old man Cao Lele and his younger sister Cao Yanyan, aged 17, at 6:57 a.m. Friday, after hearing the young man's cry for help from beneath a collapsed floor.

Rescuers said the children huddled with their mother, who had already died, when they were found. The sister suffered a serious injury, but the brother was in much better conditions..

The death toll from the landslide that occurred at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in Shuanghuyu Village, Zizhou County, had reached 26 as the rescue work ended Friday morning, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.xinhuanet.com for full version.