Landfall death toll rises to 24

RESCUERS digging through mud and rocks have recovered at least 24 bodies from a bus buried on a rural Mexican road after a mountainside gave way, officials said yesterday.

Rescue workers held out little hope of survivors among the 40 to 60 passengers thought to be on the bus.

Hundreds of soldiers and rescue workers have been labouring since Wednesday afternoon in an effort to find survivors, said Mario Marin, governor of the central state of Puebla, where the landslide occurred.