A body part was recovered from a beach below the 112.8-kilometer point of the Suhua Highway on Monday, but it remained unclear if it belonged to any of the individuals who have gone missing since the highway was hit with deadly landslides on Oct. 21. 'The 18 cm x 5 cm body part was discovered in a pile of stones on the beach, ' said an official with the Yilan County Fire Department. 'It has been sent to the prosecutors office for DNA testing.' Three people have already been confirmed as being killed in the Suhua Highway disaster when Typhoon Megi triggered lethal landslides, and another 23 are still unaccounted for. More than 300 search and rescue professionals continued combing the slopes and beaches at the bottom of the cliffs on which the highway is perched, hoping to discover the whereabouts of the missing people and a tour bus that was carrying a Chinese tour group on the highway that day. They only managed to recover the body part and some debris from the highway's metal safety barriers. A naval survey ship was also mobilized to measure whether the seabed near the Suhua Highway's collapsed sections has changed. Initial surveys found little evidence of any changes, said Yuan Sheng-hua, captain of the survey ship. The vessel will continue its survey mission Tuesday in waters east of the region searched Monday, Yuan said. Of three people confirmed dead in the Suhua Highway disaster, two were Taiwanese and one was Chinese. Relatives of the dead Chinese tourist, identified as Gong Yen, have collected the only part of her body that was located and relevant certificates from the Yilan District Prosecutors Office, an official said. More than 30 relatives of the 20 dead and missing Chinese tourists are staying in a hotel in Taipei, waiting for information about their loved ones. Some have been cited as having expressed hopes that Taiwan's government will offer them condolence or compensation payments. The Ministry of the Interior has said it would offer NT$1 million (US$32,258) in condolence money to the families of each Taiwanese citizen killed in the highway disaster. 