China observed a day of mourning on Sunday for the victims of last weekend’s massive landslide, which killed more than 1 200 people.

Fresh heavy rains on Thursday brought more misery to a town in north-west China devastated by mudslides that have already killed more than 1 100.

Rescuers racing against a potential new deluge on Wednesday hurried to drain an unstable lake formed by China’s worst mudslides in decades.