Hundreds of searchers continued the grueling work today of hunting for survivors and digging up bodies in the sea of mud and wreckage left by flash flooding in this wealthy coastal enclave.

Weary rescuers have battled rain and exhaustion in the search for more bodies - and perhaps a miracle – among the pile of filth and debris that laid waste to a Washington town and killed at least 25 people.

The death toll from the mudslide that swept through a rural US community has reached 14 as the search for survivors grows to include scores still unaccounted for.

Searchers found five more bodies in the sludge of a massive landslide in the US state of Washington.

Rescue crews searched into the night for survivors from a massive US mudslide that killed at least three people, after hearing voices from the debris field pleading for help.