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FOSHAN, Guangdong Province, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Salvage workers have retrieved three more bodies and the last two of the four vehicles which plunged into a river after a road bridge collapsed ten days ago in south China's Guangdong Province. One body was found in a small white truck salvaged on Monday morning and another two, believed to be brothers Wu Weilin and Wu Weihong from Jiangmen city, were recovered from the cab of a blue truck.

Seven bodies and all the four missing vehicles have now been retrieved after the bridge collapse. Workers are still searching for the remaining two missing people, who are believed to have been traveling in the cab of a truck that was salvaged on Sunday.

Four vehicles carrying seven people and two road workers were thrown into the Xijiang river in Guangdong on June 15 when, in heavy fog, a cargo vessel traveling along the river ploughed into a section of the 1,600-meter-long Jiujiang bridge that spans the river, causing part of it to collapse.

The bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from the river on Friday after workers hauled out a truck with the license number "Yue A KM983" registered in Guangzhou.

Another two bodies, identified as the two missing road workers, were retrieved downstream on June 17 and 18.

Workers salvaged a second truck on Sunday, licensed Shenzhen "Yue B 72420", but no bodies were found inside.

Investigators have said the collapse had nothing to do with the quality of the construction of the bridge which opened to traffic in 1988.

Six crew members of the vessel "Nanguiji 035" have been detained by maritime police.

Preliminary work has begun on repairing the bridge. The work is expected to be completed by the end of the year, local authorities say.