Story highlights Mountain guides are being lauded as heroes for trying to get people off a trapped mountain

Primary school students from Singapore are among the dead and survivors

(CNN) Two days after a deadly earthquake in Malaysia launched perilous rock slides toward mountain hikers, more devastation and more hope emerged.

Authorities recovered several more bodies from the slopes of Mount Kinabalu, bringing the death toll from Friday's quake to at least 16, a Malaysian tourism minister said Sunday.

Two people remain missing on the mountain, minister Masidi Manjun said. But one person who was thought to be missing has been found safe.

While hundreds of workers continue searching for the missing, two countries grieve.

Sunday's Malaysian Kaamatan celebration -- a harvest festival -- in Ranau has been canceled "as (a) mark of respect to those who perished," Manjun said. He also tweeted that Monday will be a day of mourning in the state of Sabah.

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