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BEIJING (AP) - An avalanche buried 12 workers Thursday at a mountainous construction site for a pipeline in China's far northwest, and the bodies of four have been recovered, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Xinhua said the workers in China's Xinjiang region were digging a 2.4-mile-long tunnel for a pipeline to transport gas from Turkmenistan to China's booming metropolis of Shanghai.
About 70 workers were at the site in the northern Ili area of Xinjiang when 12 were buried by the snow, Xinhua said. More than 200 rescue workers were searching for the missing, it said.
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