Xinhua had earlier said at least 41 people were missing, with seven people rescued and one suffering minor injuries.
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A giant flow of mud and construction waste spewed out of a dump which was filled beyond capacity, burying 33 buildings. “The government has promised to compensate our losses”, said Mr. Liu, who oversees Wance’s overseas sales.
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Among the 33 buildings either knocked over or badly damaged were two workers’ dorms and several factories.
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“With the increasing size, the pile of waste formed an unstable body”, said Peng Weiping, a geologist in Guangdong Province.
A social media account belonging to the Ministry of Land & Resources blamed the landslide on the dumping of construction waste and dirt at a close-by website.
Authorities said a huge man-made mound of earth and construction debris lost its stability and collapsed after being stacked too steeply.
“Shenzhen is a modern city after all; ultimately its management standards are pretty high”. Rapid industrialization, along with weak industrial safety and zoning laws, are cited as among the major causes of both disasters.
Once a sleepy fishing village on the communist side of a Cold War frontier, Shenzhen was chosen by Beijing three decades ago to help pioneer landmark economic reforms, and it has boomed ever since.
The Shenzhen government did not respond to requests for comment.
Locals told the media that they had long seen the pile of construction waste as a danger. The excavators, who arrived at the site on Monday, were the first to be involved in the operation. Environmental impact assessments were likely skipped, they said.
People look as rescuers searching for survivors on a collapsed buildings following a landslide in Shenzhen, in south China’s Guangdong province, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Details are beginning to emerge about the cause of the landslide, which authorities say covered an area of 100,000 square meters with up to 6 meters (20 feet) of mud.
“At one point, the running mud was only ten metres away from me”, said Jinxin.
The State Council, China’s cabinet, dispatched a team of senior officials and experts, led by State Councilor Wang Yong, to Shenzhen on Monday to oversee rescue work.
Rescue efforts were being hampered by a spate of obstacles, including rain, low nighttime visibility and the large amount of mud, Ao said.
State television said that of the 91 missing, 59 were men and 32 women.
Workers are racing against time, as signs of life were detected under the mud debris on Monday.
“Fortunately, our building was not hit, and all people in our company were safely evacuated”, the worker said, adding that a fishpond broke the full force of the landslide.
Eighty-five people are still unaccounted for a day after a freakish landslide struck the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
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The soil was allegedly illegally stored in piles 100 metres (330 feet) high at an old quarry site and turned to mud during heavy rain Sunday morning, the state-run Global Times reported.
