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In a video shared by the president, emergency workers could be seen sifting through the rubble as they continued to search for victims on Tuesday morning.

Rescuers have so far pulled 86 people from the rubble alive but 16 are known to have died, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said.

The agency, quoted by AFP, said many of the dead were women and children, with dozens stilled feared to be under the rubble.

"Soon afterwards the thieves crawled back along the 40ft tunnel. They escaped through a back window leaving eight tons of rubble from the tunnel behind."

When the torrent hit the cement bridge that connected the two parts of the village, it turned it to rubble.