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Geo436 BEIJING: Urgent food and medical supplies have been blocked outside a mudslide-ravaged area of northwest China, as rescuers ended the search for about 500 people still missing, authorities said Monday. Thousands of soldiers sent to Zhouqu, a remote town in Gansu province flattened by landslides a week ago, have stopped digging for bodies buried under sludge to prevent an outbreak of disease, the local government told AFP.