At least 96 people were still missing on Sunday, more than a day after a huge landslide buried a mountain village in rural China.

More than 2,500 rescuers were called in to dig through the rubble of Xinmo village in Sichuan province, where at least ten people were killed in the disaster on Saturday morning.

As of Sunday night, only three survivors - a couple and their one-month-old baby - have been found so far after 62 homes in Xinmo village vanished under a mass of mud and rocks in Sichuan province.

Heavy rain caused the side of the mountain to collapse onto the riverside village in the early morning, according to authorities.