(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.
And Singapore is mourning the loss of several students and at least one teacher from a primary school who were on a trip to Mount Kinabalu when the magnitude-6.0 quake struck.
Several students killed
They had gone to Kinabalu, one of Southeast Asia's tallest peaks, for adventure. They left with heartbreak -- knowing some of their classmates and teachers weren't coming home with them.
"The students (are) shaken but are safe," Singapore's Minister of Education Heng Swee Keat said after a "very emotional" airport meeting Saturday with the surviving students and teachers.
(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.And Singapore is mourning the loss of several students and at least one teacher from a primary school who were on a trip to Mount Kinabalu when the magnitude-6.0 quake struck.Several students killedThey had gone to Kinabalu, one of Southeast Asia's tallest peaks, for adventure. They left with heartbreak -- knowing some of their classmates and teachers weren't coming home with them."The students (are) shaken but are safe," Singapore's Minister of Education Heng Swee Keat said after a "very emotional" airport meeting Saturday with the surviving students and teachers.
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