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A 17-year-old girl who was pulled alive with her elder brother early Friday from a landslide in northwest China, where they had been buried for 54 hours, died in hospital.

"The girl had a very weak pulse when she was taken to hospital. Emergency medical treatment failed after just a few minutes," said Wang Xiongwei, dean in the orthopedics department at Zizhou County Hospital.

Her brother, Cao Lele, was still under intensive care in the hospital, which is only a five-minute ride away from the landslide site, in Shuanghuyu Village, Zizhou County.

The doctor Wang said the brother was slightly injured, but suffering the effects of being buried for 54 hours in debris.

Rescue workers pull out Cao Lele, who was buried by a landslide for about 54 hours, in Shuanghuyu village, Shuanghuyu town, Zizhou county in northwest China’s Shaanxi province at 7:22 am on March 12, 2010. The severe landslide occurred about 1:30 am on March 10, and left 44 people in 25 houses buried under thick earth. The number of people killed in the landslide rose to 23 by Thursday. [Photo/Xinhua]