The landslide last Thursday in Al-Dhafeer, 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Sanaa, left a total of 65 dead and eight injured, Sanaa governor Abdelwahed al-Bakhiti was quoted by the agency as saying.

"The rescue teams have ended their search ... after having been assured by relatives of the victims that there were no more people missing," Bakhiti added.

He appealed for international aid to rebuild the village, where as many as 25 of its 31 houses were destroyed, buried under huge piles of rubble.

It was not clear what caused the landslide, in which an earlier casualty toll said 63 people were killed. Yemen's seismology centre had no word of an earthquake and there were no reports of severe weather.

Despite its proximity to oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Yemen is one of the world's poorest countries with a per capita gross domestic product of just 800 dollars.

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