Beijing ? Workers recovered 29 bodies after digging through landslide rubble to reach the wreckage of a bus that had been buried for three days, a state news agency said today.

There was no official word on the cause of the accident, although the landslide struck near a tunnel construction site in a region hit by seismic shocks blamed on rising waters behind the massive Three Gorges Dam.

Officials had already confirmed the death of one worker on the tunnel being blasted above the highway in mountainous central China.

Workers discovered the bus on Friday morning. They recovered 24 bodies by late Friday night, and pulled out five more by this morning, Xinhua reported, citing rescue officials.