Startling photos and videos showed a life-threatening landslide topple a building in an industrial park in Shenzhen, a major city in China’s southern Guangdong province, on Sunday.
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A company based in Shenzhen that conducts site surveys had previously warned of dangers at the site, Chinese news outlets said.
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Another witness said the mud hit like “huge waves”, and he barely escaped the torrents that engulfed his home in red earth and sludge.
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State-run media suggests recent construction could be to blame for the landslide that caused several buildings to collapse.
Officials from the Ministry of Public Security’s firefighting bureau in the counry reported that at least seven people were rescued after some 18 buildings were buried and a 20,000 square meter (24,000 square yards) area was left covered in soil. The mudslide, covering an area of more than 380,000 square metres, was 10 metres deep in parts, Shenzhen vice-mayor Liu Qingsheng told reporters, according to state news agency Xinhua. Just four months ago, more than 160 people were killed in big chemical blasts in the northern port city of Tianjin.
The frequency of industrial accidents has raised questions about safety standards after three decades of breakneck growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
The command center said more than 2,900 firefighters, police and other personnel were involved in rescue and other emergency efforts.
China has had problems with unregulated dumping of construction waste for some time, the New York Times reported. Shenzhen lacks the capacity to accommodate all of the waste. The Ministry of Land and Resources said a steep man-made mountain of dirt, cement chunks and other construction waste had been piled up against a 100-meter (330-foot)-high hill over the past two years.
Rescuers sifted through hundreds of tonnes of mud from a crumbling mountain and debris from the buildings in one of China’s most developed cities. Earlier in the day it had said 91 people were missing and seven rescued, but it gave no explanation for the change in the missing.
The affected buildings include 14 factories, 13 low-rise buildings, two offices, three dormitories and a canteen. Write to us in the Comments section or on our Facebook page.
The Shenzhen government said 600 people had been relocated.
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Rescuers search for survivors in a damaged building following a landslide in Shenzhen, in south China’s Guangdong province on Sunday.
