Rescuers on Wednesday pulled him from the massive mudslide that hit part of a major manufacturing city in southern China.
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Tian told rescuers another survivor may have been close to where he had been trapped, but officials later said that person was found dead.
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The 19-year-old survivor suffered severe dehydration and has been transferred to a hospital.
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Photos and video footage from the scene showed a phalanx of dozens of armed police, firefighters and men in hard hats gathered around a deep hole dug into the soil where he had been buried. Another neurosurgeon, Dai Limeng, told the news conference that he had gone into the rubble and confirmed that the second person had not survived. The number of deaths was expected to rise sharply after the “golden period” – the 72-hour window when survival chances are highest – closed. More than 70 people were still missing on Wednesday, with only a handful of bodies found so far.
On Tuesday, the police raided the offices of Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development, the firm that owned the dump site, and arrested one of its deputy general managers. “There is no guarantee for our lives. There is no power supply now”.
Little Hong’s elder brother described how he called his father repeatedly, until his cell phone battery went flat.
“As long as there is a sliver of hope, we will never give up”, Zhang said.
Shenzhen media has warned that the city was running out of space to store construction waste, especially as the city works on an ambitious subway construction plan. Geysers of debris exploded into the air as the mud swept through the city. About 10 workers manned the machinery, with no sign of having halted their work in the wake of the landslide. The team will be headed by the minister of land resources.
Residents have said raised questions about why officials didn’t act to stop the growing mountain of construction waste, which they said they had feared was unsafe.
State media reported that the New Guangming District government had identified problems with the mountain of soil months earlier.
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The government issued a second warning in September, noting that the dump’s permit to receive waste had expired and authorities had made it clear that dumping should cease.
