DHAKA: Among the mounds of mud and ripped-down trees, you see an occasional appliance, a tire here and there, the twisted cables that used to be part of the telephone system. What you don`t see are homes.

They are gone. And it is difficult to even figure out where they once stood and what became of them.

The sheer force of a landslide on March 22 pulverized this neighborhood in rural Washington, leaving behind a graveyard in the debris where 28 bodies have been recovered and where crews painstakingly search for people who are listed as missing.

On that awful Saturday, a rain-saturated hillside along the north fork of the Stillaguamish River gave way, sending a square-mile rush of wet earth and rock into the outskirts of the town of Oso in Washington`s North Cascade Mountains.

Since then, rescuers have trudged through the muck -- 70 feet thick in some places -- looking for bodies, though some cling to hope someone might be found alive even 10 days later.

The death toll in the massive landslide rose to 28, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner`s Office said Tuesday afternoon.

The latest victim identified was Adam Farnes, a 23-year-old who died at a hospital on the day of the slide. His name was not on the list of the missing.

Authorities so far have released the names of 22 deceased victims, ranging in age from 4 months to 71 years.

Twenty people remain missing, down from 22 on Monday, authorities said, report the CNN.

BDST: 0954 HRS, APR 02, 2014