The two additional fatalities were discovered as some 500 rescuers using search dogs, helicopters and thermal-imaging equipment dug through waist-deep mud for victims or survivors of the mudslides, which were triggered by a heavy downpour early on Tuesday.

Death toll rises to 17 in California mudslides, 17 missing

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Death toll rises to 17 in California mudslides, 17 missing