Heavy rain after deadly China earthquake complicates recovery

Rescuers transfer a villager through a damaged mountain road near Moxi Town of Luding County, south-west China’s Sichuan Province (Shen Bohan/Xinhua/AP)

Heavy rains are complicating earthquake recovery efforts in south-west China, where the death toll from the disaster has risen to 82.

More than 20,000 people have been moved to temporary shelters amid the threat of landslides and buildings collapsing in the mountainous region of Sichuan province, state media reported on Thursday.