Dozens missing after deadly landslide in Venezuela

Authorities check truck as they move in and out after a landslide that ripped through Las Tejerias (AP)

Rescuers have worked to clear rocks and mud from the streets of a north-central city in Venezuela, three days after it was hit by a massive and deadly landslide, and expanded their search for the dead.

Officials raised the death toll from the slide in Las Tejerias to at least 43 and warned that it could rise as bodies are found downstream from the hardest-hit neighbourhoods.