Maoxian County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, southwest China - June 24, 2017
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of rescuers continue search and rescue efforts

2. Aerial shot of landslide
3. Excavators working
4. Various of aerial shots of rescuers working
5. Various of soldiers boarding on helicopters, materials being transported onto helicopter
6. Various of helicopter taking off
7. Aerial shot of landslide
8. Various of militiamen joining search and rescue efforts
9. Various of excavators working
10. Various of rescuers, sniffer dog working
11. Various of medical staff standing by at People's Hospital of Maoxian County
12. Ambulances
13. Medical device
14. Medicines

Search and rescue efforts continued Saturday night as more personnel arrived at the landslide site after it occurred in Maoxian county, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, earlier in the day.

Huge rocks unleashed from above continued to fall from time to time, posing threats to rescuers as they raced against time to search for and rescue possible survivors after the estimated eight million-cubic-meter volume of landslide engulfed a cluster of residential houses.

So far, a total of 13 bodies have been retrieved from the debris.

Rescuers also were ordered to evacuate people living near the disaster scene, clear roads and dredge the waterway cut off by landslide with the help of flood lighting vehicles.

According to the local weather department, rain will hit the region at night, further bringing down temperatures and making rescue efforts more difficult.

An army aviation brigade from No.77 group army of Western Theater Command dispatched first batch of two helicopters to the landslide site with members from field command group and a total of 15 medical staff from Chengdu General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army.

Soldiers also identified three to five landing sites for helicopters, paving way for further rescue efforts.

Other four helicopters are also on standby.

Sichuan military command established front-line headquarters in the wake of the landslide and organized over 460 local emergency militiamen to join the rescue efforts.

They were divided into small groups to search for and rescue possible survivors, transfer injured people and transport relief materials.

Medical staff at People's Hospital of Maoxian county also got prepared as doctors and nurses will be on duty round the clock for seven days.

Medical equipment, devices and other related materials are all set.