"The death toll from a landslide triggered by monsoon rains in eastern Myanmar has risen to 41, officials said, as emergency workers continued searching through the mud for the scores more feared missing. A huge brown gash on the hillside marked where the deluge of mud descended on Ye Pyar Kone village in Mon state on Friday, wiping out at least 27 homes. Search and rescue teams worked through Friday night and into Saturday with excavators and their bare hands, trying to find survivors and recover bodies from the deep sludge. "The death toll has risen to 41," township administrator Zaw Moe Aung told AFP late on Saturday. So far, 47 people have been injured while officials believe that about 80 people could still be missing. Aerial photographs of Ye Pyar Kone showed the broken remnants of rooftops and other debris from the houses strewn next to trucks knocked over by the force of the mudslide. Its hillside temple was left inundated, with only the pagoda's golden spire peeking out from beneath the mud..."