The death toll has risen to 36 following the collapse of a carriageway on a motorway in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday.
The agency reported that three more vehicles which went down with the collapsed road had been discovered.
Chinese media had previously reported 24 deaths.
The collapse of a 18-metre-long section of road near the city of Meizhou on the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway occurred after several days of heavy rain in the area.
Witnesses told local media that they heard a loud noise and saw a hole several metres wide opened up behind them after driving past the section of road that was about to collapse.
The cause of the accident is still being investigated.