Authorities said the landslide buried or damaged 33 buildings in the industrial park in Shenzhen, a city near Hong Kong that makes products used around the world ranging from mobile phones to cars.
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At least 85 people were missing in China on Monday a day after a giant flow of mud and construction waste spewed out of an overfull dump in a boomtown and buried 33 buildings in its latest industrial disaster.
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The landslide covered 380,000 sq metres in silt 10 metres deep, said Liu Qingsheng, deputy mayor of Shenzhen.
Drone footage showed how the mud had swept through and over buildings and tossed aside trucks like toys.
“The landslide is not from a natural mountain, but a huge pile of mud”.
Posts on the microblog said mud had thoroughly infused numerous buildings, leaving the “room of survival extremely small”.
“The pile was too big, the pile was too steep, leading to instability and collapse, ” the ministry said, according to the BBC.
Authorities said it was hard to calculate the exact number of missing because numerous people living and working there are thought to be migrant workers from China’s poorer, inland provinces, who are often unregistered or their relatives so far away to be contacted quickly.
The soil was allegedly illegally stored in heaps 100 meters (330 feet) high at an old quarry site and turned to mud during rain Sunday morning, the state-run Global Times reported. “I do not know who’ll assist us now”. The delay enabled people to run for safety, survivors said.
The rescue efforts have been ongoing as Chinese leaders ordered “everything possible” be done to minimize casualties. Some recalled the sound of a large blast, although it was unclear whether an explosion set off the slide or was caused by it. PetroChina said that its gas pipeline through the area had not exploded, despite earlier reports that it had. By Monday morning, the fire was extinguished and a temporary section of pipe was being laid.
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But Shenzhen’s explosive growth, fueled by Deng’s prophetic designation of it as China’s first so-called Special Economic Zone, which gives preferential treatment to foreign investment, also symbolises many of China’s most acute problems – overcrowding, corruption, pollution and the stark absence of accountability.
