Four missing Chinese geologists were found dead on Monday morning.
The four geological workers from the Kunming Natural Resources Comprehensive Survey Center of China Geological Survey went into the Ailao Mountains for work through Zhenyuan county in Pu'er city, Yunnan around 9 am on November 13 before losing contact with the survey center.
A total of two raincoats were found with one at their camping shack and the other near the downstream of a river near their shack in Zhenyuan county on Saturday, reports said. Meanwhile, missing people's excreta was also found near the downstream of the river.
According to an official from the publicity department of the county, the four researchers did not bring satellite phones and only brought a day's supply of foods since they had planned to return the next day.
The four missing workers were born in the 1980s and 1990s, with the youngest born in 1996.